cardiff cut

‘innovative, hilarious, exhilarating, remarkably astute... delivered with a sandpaper sense of humour this frantic, sometimes savage eruption of chaos & poetry will leave you exhausted... truly unique... great stuff!’ – melanie daley, the big issue ‘some of the best dialect writing in these islands, ever’ – niall griffiths, the guardian ‘a torrent of language fuels a narrative in & around the raw ends of cardiff. well-paced, bundles of charm & humour, an ear for language. this is robson’s best work, an extended prose poem in the beat tradition. he is now a writer of achievement.’ – david daddy, tears in the tence ‘with cardiff cut robson confirms an important reputation as an authentic & original voice, able to deliver streetwise power punches with the deceptive subtlety of true ringcraft. a night to remember... it’s a tonsil-ripping cocktail of a book. down it in one!’ – john harrison, new welsh review

A 20th anniversary edition with a foreword by peter finch cardiff cut is witty, obscene, defiant; an anarchic joycean monologue steeped in the city of cardiff. neither truth nor fiction taken from real life or what seemed for an instant