Trouble in the Heartland, Joel Lane's second poetry collection, inhabits the same West Midlands landscape as his first collection, The Edge of the Screen (Arc, 1999) - a landscape of urban decay, violence, loneliness, abuse, addiction and chaos. Chaos is a particularly prominent theme in this book; in the first section, the chaos is around us, in the second, inside us, while the third and final section attempts to draw the outer and inner worlds together in order to make sense of the whole. For all its unrelenting subject matter, this is a surprisingly optimistic book - carefully observed, sensitive and grimly witty - and one that will confirm Joel Lane's considerable talents as a poet.
- ISBN10 1900072998
- ISBN13 9781900072991
- Publish Date 24 February 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 May 2022
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Arc Publications
- Format Paperback
- Pages 72
- Language English