A Poetry Book Society recommendation:

Roy McFarlane’s 2nd poetry collection “The Healing Next Time” is a timely and unparalleled book of interwoven sequences on institutional racism, deaths in custody and of a life-story set against the ever-changing backdrop of Birmingham at the turn of the millennium. Here forms a potent and resolute narrative in lyrical and multidimensional poems which refuse to look the other way or accept the whitewashed version of events.

By: Roy McFarlane

Published by: Nine Arches Press

ISBN: 9781911027454