"I'd Rather You Lied": Selected Poems 1980-1998

7elected from over thirty-five collections, this new compendium brings together a life-time's work of one of the most remarkable and unorthodox voices of the late twentieth century. "Terse, gutsy and powerfully humane" - Time Out "A seething, dyslexic, better-looking British Bukowski" - The Observer "Perhaps the most prolific artist of his generation" - The Observer "Billy Childish is legendary, an English recalcitrant" - i-D