In this collection, I look at my life as an older gay man, my London neighbourhood, my furniture, other people’s gardens and London’s creatures. The book ranges through tight rhyming to looser meditations and prose poems, words crafted to make some sense of the world. 

 ‘Peter Daniels is engaged in a kind of poetic archaeology, unearthing what has been hidden and celebrating its considerable beauty. Here are poems replete with mirrored ballrooms, silk longjohns, rhubarb pavlovas, door bells, lemon yellow emulsion and ‘two men in bed unusually early’. My Tin Watermelon fizzes with queerness and rages against invisibility!’— Richard Scott

‘A compelling hidden history of things. A matryoshka of meaning. A curated exhibition of memorabilia, tidbits and outfits, flora and fauna, places and spaces that make up a home, an identity, a life. It has the intimacy of a private view: visceral, humorous, philosophical, perceptive. We’re seduced by the things but more importantly, the poet’s flair for conjuring up absent things. A treat to read.’ —Patience Agbabi

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