When We Were Almost Like Men Tim Cresswell Selected poems of:

Selected poems of:

and he died forgotten and destitute

'Poets I Go Back To' — Simon Currie and Chris Jones

some fifty years back

When We Were Almost Like Men Tim Cresswell Selected poems of:When We Were Almost Like Men explores the world of the modern courier industry, the working lives of the men and women caught inside the machinery of the modern city. From controllers to couriers, telephonists to mechanics, supervisors to sales reps, Martin Hayes is a guide to a kind of hell that is simultaneously fascinating, depressing, hopeless and hilarious, exploring what it means to hold down a job when all the odds seem to be stacked against