Available to pre-order, this book will be dispatched close to publication date, 29/10/2026

ISBN: 978-1-916760-42-4

Price: £14.99

Publication date: 29^th October 2026

Format: Paperback / eBook

Territories: World

Extent: 180pp

CBV: Creative writing and creative writing guides

Part memoir, part meditation on the art of poetry and what it is to be a poet in the modern age, The Way of the Poet by Roy McFarlane is a journal following the daily life in creative practice.

Full of guidance, encouragement and reflections on the personal, political and radical nature of the craft of writing in troubled times, this will be a ground-breaking book from one of the new millennium’s most inspiring and socially-engaged writers.

About the author:

Roy McFarlane is a Poet, Writer and former Youth and Community Worker born in Birmingham, spending most of his years in the Black Country and now living in Brighton. He’s the former National Canal Laureate and Birmingham Poet Laureate. His three collections are published by Nine Arches Press: Beginning with Your Last Breath, The Healing Next Time (shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and longlisted for the Jhalak Prize) and Living by Troubled Waters.