Tea with the Taliban Wanda Phipps and from the time of

and from the time of his first collection

complex and probing

both contemporaneously and historically

Where not a word is wasted

Kapka Kassabova

Tea with the Taliban Wanda Phipps and from the time ofOwen Gallaghers third collection of poems is a book about the warring tribes to which we all belong. This is a journey to dystopia: from the Gorbals in the 1950s to contemporary Palestine. The poems here examine the loyalties of family and friendship, the sectarian and ideological loyalties of religion, class and politics. Along the way we meet Emma Goldman, Trotsky and Shelley, and are shown glimpses of a distant workers republic where Robert Owen