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When Rob Walton went into lockdown, he didn't know that he would also go into mourning. Here he writes about the life and death of his dad, and how sadness seeped into various aspects of his life. He also manages cheap laughs, digs at the government, celebrations, unashamed sentimentality and suddenly disarming moments of tenderness.

Rob Walton is from Scunthorpe, and now lives in Whitley Bay. His poems, flash fictions and short stories for adults and children have appeared in various anthologies and magazines. This is his first collection.
His publishers include the Emma Press, Bloomsbury, Frances Lincoln, Harper Collins, Butcher's Dog, Smith/Doorstop, Dunlin Press, Dostoyevsky Wannabe.
He has also written scripts, a pathway and columns for Scunthorpe United's matchday magazine. He sometimes tweets @anicelad.
Arachne Press were first introduced to Rob through his short stories which have appeared in many of our anthologies, most recently Time & Tide. He first offered us poems for An Outbreak of Peace and we've been hankering after more ever since.