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Dumbiedykes Road: and Other Collected Poems
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 30 2025
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Dumbiedykes Road: and Other Collected Poems is the debut poetry collection from London-based playwright James Wood, whose works include Independence Day, Marin County (The Old Court Theatre, Windsor, 2024), The Wolves of Saint Matthew's (Camden, Waterloo and Clapham, 2025), and Prove It All Night! (commissioned by London's largest short-play festival for a five-night run at Battersea Power Station, 2025).
In this collection, Wood's dramaturgical precision becomes poetic electricity. The book spans a vast emotional terrain: from the political firestorm of Fire and the darkly comic bite of Let's Talk About It, to the gentle tenderness of Anna, the aching nostalgia of We Grew Up on the Edge of England, and the cinematic grief of Jackson's Bar.
Readers drift through the quiet heartbreak of Friday After Work, By the River, the smoky Southern stillness of Appalachia, the neon suburban haze of Ealing Broadway, 2:06am, and the haunting silence of The Quietest Town in Mississippi.
Threaded with themes of place, class, love, memory, and outrage, Dumbiedykes Road offers a portrait of the world that is unflinching yet full of warmth. Wood captures the world as it is felt: messy, political, hopeful, mundane, tragic, miraculous - always human.
A collection for anyone who has worked hard, loved deeply, lost badly, and kept going anyway.
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