Bold sons, calm sons, bullying sons, dead sons, unborn sons, grim sons, farming sons, pilot sons, gay sons, straight sons, wishful sons, tearful sons, broke sons, rich sons, howling sons, bereaved sons, dressed-up sons, cast-out sons, disinherited sons; the sons in Noel King’s SONS could be your sons, or our sons. They permeate the boundaries of our expectations of how sons could or should behave.

Noel King writes in many different voices and personas almost always in the first person narrative, giving an immediacy to this absorbing 21st century collection which is rooted in 20th century appeal and experience. 

Noel King was born and lives in Tralee, Co Kerry. In this his 50th year, he has reached his 1000th publication of a poem, haiku or short story in magazines, periodicals and journals in thirty-eight countries. His previous poetry collections are published by Salmon: Prophesying the Past (2010) and The Stern Wave (2013). He has edited more than fifty books of work by others and was poetry editor of Revival Literary Journal (Limerick Writers’ Centre) in 2012/13. Anthology publications include The Second Genesis: An Anthology of Contemporary World Poetry (AR.A.W., India, 2014). A short story collection, The Key Signature & Other Stories is due in 2016. He also enjoys acting and singing in amateur musical theatre and plays and in the odd film. He was once a Bunratty Castle entertainer. www.noelking.ie