Ghosts of a Low Moon (Lapwing Publications, Belfast 2010)

Andrew’s first collection is woven through with the dreams and fractured memories of a road trip across America. It considers the voices that have been lost in the world from the gamblers or Las Vegas to the childhood friends of soldiers. The Ghosts of a Low Moon blends a lyrical tradition against a backdrop of damaged individuals and broken communities.

‘Andrew Oldham is one of our finest younger poets. Coming from a generation that has, by and large, abandoned the possibilities afforded by poetry for addressing important issues, Oldham succeeds
remarkably in investing the best of his work with a relevance and urgency which makes it at once challenging and accessible. This first collection amply demonstrates his qualities as a poet: always readable, never obscure, taking the reader with him in his tentative explorations of the extraordinary that lies under the surface tensions of our lives. Here are poems that are witty, moving and entertaining; poems with hidden depths and flashes of insight. It is a first collection full of promise from a poet already writing with skill and originality.’ – Ian Parks

‘Ghosts of a Low Moon captures a mixture of lyricism and damage which is a key note of the collection. I was struck by the different kinds of emotional hauntings in the book: childhood, lost loves, places and landscapes are all capable of returning to disturb the narrators of the poems…There’s a kind of damaged romanticism
which underpins the vision of the book’ – Esther Morgan

Spanking the Monkey in Next Stop Hope (Route Books, 2003)

A Private Detective riddled in hatred meets his match in a Polish nemesis and his trained monkey.

‘An immensely entertaining mixture of drama, grit and humour. An energetic bag of tricks that never fails to entertain, your next stop should be the book shop.’ – Leeds Guide

COMING SOON

Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam (Cinnamon Press 2012). Foreword by David Lehman. Edited by Todd Swift and Kim Lockwood. Featuring the likes of Luke Kennard, Helen Mort, Andrew Oldham, Clare Pollard, Chris McCabe, Kathryn Simmonds, Owen Sheers. Available from Amazon.