“Only Rumour Survives” – published today!

Coverstory books is delighted to announce the publication of David Smith’s fourth poetry collection “Only Rumour Survives”.

This eclectic collection sings with melancholy, humour, wistful reflection and evocative insight.

Written in a concise style that makes for rare accessibility to inner meaning, this is a thought-provoking and original collection of poems.

David Smith is also the author of “The Stencil Room”.

David Smith’s poems are often concise and  “interweave the varied and numerous antagonisms inherent in lived experience”

Bob Beagrie, Lecturer Teesside University

“Only Rumour Survives” is David’s fourth collection and is published on 1st December, 2021. [Note: it will probably take a day or two for the book to appear live with inline retailers, though it is currently visible showing as ‘coming soon’. Feel free to order it!]