Digging for Toys - Softcover

Bobby Parker

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190740144X ISBN 13: 9781907401442

Publisher: Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

...I imagined strange people were digging in the rain. Some of them kept digging until they were at the bottom of a deep pit and the pit would fill with rain until they drowned. Some of them found what they were looking for, smiled and disappeared. I thought about the diggers in the rain. Maybe they are still out there. Digging. Drowning in rain-filled pits. Some of them digging with their hands. The scary ones dig with their hands. Their wigs fall off, they pick them up and carry on digging. They have eyes like burst blood blisters. Their skin is maggot ice cream. Are they looking for toys? I think they are digging for toys...'' Digging for Toys is set in a rundown town full of odd characters and the setting of Parker s trials and fantasies whilst writing the pieces in this book. The poems and prose/stories explore the fragility of relationships and the wonders of eccentricity as a means to overcome the mundane. There are working class people passing time, marriages hurtling toward destruction, weird dreams explored to the brink of madness; there is loneliness, insecurity, in-laws, traumatic memories and haunting regret, but also lots of quirky humour. As a whole this book is one man s attempt to come to terms with a life that is going nowhere and everywhere at great speed, into the big empty nothing in the distance, leaving this book behind among the ants and flowers.

About this title

About the Author

Bobby Parker lives in Kidderminster. He has been writing for ten years. Bobby is influenced by dreams, outsider art, weirdness, horror movies and the eccentric characters he encounters on the street and in his life. His work has appeared in a great number of magazines. He has judged poetry competitions and is editor of Urban District Writer magazine, which has published the likes of George Szirtes, Peter Finch and Salena Godden. Every year on Halloween he lights a candle for all the weird loners out there and makes a wish for us all to find peace with who we are.

Edition details

• Publisher: Indigo Dreams Publishing
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 190740144X
• ISBN 13: 9781907401442
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 86