Male Daughters, Female Husbands

Road Trip is a hugely promising debut collection by a poet with illuminating and entertaining stories to tell. From his role as a dad to two mixed race children living in whitest South Wales, the uncovered stories of his father's time in the British army, the landscapes and animals of Wales, to a sequence of sonnets featuring a hitchhiker and her ride, Thompson has a refreshing, curious and honest eye that transforms and illuminates the everyday into something special and unique