Tightly Controlled Tempest - The Poems of My Youth

A varied collection of poems, quotes/thoughts and song lyrics, written over a period of many years. Stephen Tucker started writing as a teenager in rural Somerset, south-west England, in the 1970s, and the themes he deals with in this anthology change interestingly as the years go by. Religion, politics, philosophy, sex and the ethos of the 1960s are just some of the topics covered, and the language used varies from the explicit and brutal to the beautifully evocative and profound. A unique insight into the cauldron of ideas which have stormed around the mind of this deeply thoughtful person through the years – a “Tightly Controlled Tempest” indeed! Please note that some of the content of this book is unsuitable for children or persons of a sensitive or prudish nature. 83 pages: 49 poems, 12 quotes/thoughts, 8 songs. The inside front cover photo shows the author, aged seventeen, at his childhood home in Somerset, England.