Martin Hayes third Smokestack collection is a hymn to the invisible workers everywhere who hold up the sky specifically the couriers and support staff who have been working 15hours a day to distribute PPE and test kits up and down the UK. Underneath is a brutally funny collection about work, comradeship and community, the deals we do to stay human in the dehumanising conditions of the twentyfirst century, the years we exchange for a fridge full of food, a wellstocked medicine cabinet and the chance to swim in the sea once a year. Its a book about workmates and neighbours, warnings and redundancies, managers with their Moray eel smiles and the alien rich who think that the world belongs to them. Martin Hayes gives a voice to everyone at the bottom of the pile, below the salt, underneath, defiantly asserting that we are not defeated at least not just yet.

Binding: Paperback;260 pages; Publisher: Smokestack Books; Classification: DC; Weight: 398 g; Dimensions: 130 x 197 x 22

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