This fresh clutch of poems celebrates the simple joy of words, with just a soupçon of a nod to the fragility of life. In More Peace Joy and Omelette, you will find reality served in a homeopathic portion.

Here the everyday poet brings you a veritable omelette of poetry: giving voice to the humble umlaut, a teachers’ food fight, an oven-ready NHS manifesto, a strange tale of cakes to die for, a joyfully happy judo-Christmas couple, a hairy ride on a punctuation train, and a dig at our politicians who are mostly good eggs. There are also real life events to look out for, like being mistaken for Sven-Göran Eriksson.

The German saying Friede Freude Eierkuchen means “Everything is fine” and translates literally as “Peace, joy and omelette”. We need more peace, joy and omelette, so clutch this book with both hands.