These "emails" speak in a variety of voices and forms about the marginalised in society. Simon goes some way to justifying poetry’s claim to speak, "truth to power". There are also poems of friendship, love and delightful jeux d’espirit.
"I enjoyed the deft fluency, the economy, the pure tone." Ted Hughes (Late Poet Laureate) wrote of
The Occasions of Love, also published by Pennine Pens
