Balancing on a barbed wire fence

by Jack Withers

95 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

About the author

Jack Withers is a Scottish poet. He was born in pre-World War Two Glasgow into what was then considered to be an ordinary family living in public housing. His family were like all those around them in their efforts to keep body and soul together through work, subject to the vagaries of the free market. Like most of his peers he left school at the earliest opportunity and joined the search for a job. Years, and many gainful, and some painful, positions later, he took up writing. He writes about what he experiences in the world.