“Peephole Extravaganza”

We are delighted to announce the forthcoming publication of Simon French‘s latest collection of poetry, Peephole Extravaganza, around the end of February 2026.

“Simon French’s third collection offers its readers a feast of original and sometimes startling imagery in poems ranging from the tenderly insightful to the boldly erotic; poems which allow privileged insights into so many different lives.

“His pages are densely populated with losers and gainers, lovers and predators: a defiant eighty-four-year-old on skis for the first time, ‘not wanting death to pick the cottage lock’; a homeless man surviving cold nights by sleeping at the base of a crematorium chimney; even a wind-turbine is brought convincingly to life.

“Those familiar with Simon’s earlier work will again encounter the same energy and apparently endless inventiveness which contribute to his unique style – from the ‘Great Tombola in the Sky’ which opens the book, to the gentle surprise of the final poem. A ‘Peephole Extravaganza’ indeed.” – Emmaline O’Dowd