little town blues

little town blues documents Paul Robert Mullen walking the crumbling streets of post-everything Britain with his eyes wide open. This is poetry rooted in places most people overlook: towns running on fumes, where shop shutters speak louder than slogans and silence says everything. Chip wrappers are relics. Omens, even. The promenade is both graveyard and altar. Mullen writes like someone who's lived it. These poems burn slow, full of scuffed tenderness. They hum with the unsaid: desire, regret, routine, the weight of being seen and unseen all at once. No forced lyricism. No reach for highbrow relevance. That's not Mullen's style. What he offers is stripped- back truth, delivered with forensic care. Think faded seaside towns, charity shops on life support, lost boys in football tops haunting pub corners. little town blues is a love letter to what's left behind, a record of survival in the face of cultural neglect.