JAMBO

"Jambo, urban poet of the high walls and the city walkways, stalks this book like a reminder of the people who never get their words heard. He's a character we all know but who rarely gets to write things down. Dave Ward's helped him, and the result is electrifying." IAN McMILLAN "The decade's most pertinent youth-orientated poem-cycle." READING THE APPLAUSE National Association of Writers in Education "This book is so good - it's one huge poem, an assortment of electrifying prose and dialogue... Bittersweet, often hilarious... it is really worth looking at Ward's style - he manages to retain humour without becoming farcical, and remains serious without becoming suicidal." DOMINIC CARROLL (17): BOOX "I like these poems very much - their power is cumulative... Jambo surely would have particular appeal to teachers, colleges and kids in the 16-19 age group." BLAKE MORRISON "This is the kind of book that makes you want to stop people in the street and yell READ THIS!!... You know these poems, they're happening all around you in every aerosol grafitti on every subway wall in every town..." ANDY DARLINGTON: HOT PRESS "A pictorial poetic novel... blending gritty dole-queue urban realism with witty logical conceits." GLADSONGS & GATHERINGS: Liverpool Univerity Press "Dave Ward's Jambo reminds me of Brian Patten's Little Johnny's Confession, though it's very different (if you know what I mean)." PAUL WELLER "Jambo is warm, and bleak at the same time. It's really good." BRIAN PATTEN "Jambo is astoundingly unique - the only approachable concrete poem." LIBBY HOUSTON " ... a withered view of the contemporary urban wasteland." MARK KERMODE: BBC RADIO ONE "A potent mix of graphics and terse telegrams" NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS " ... inventive, immediate and moving." NICKI JACKOWSKA "Jambo links together into a running commentry of his lifestyle." THE FACE "It's our Waste Land." PETE FAULKNER JAMBO: Impact Books ISBN 1 874687 323