...what people say about the poems

Brechtian and Dickensian in its anger and detail, but without the didactic hectoring. Wilson relies on a dark irony, the reticence allowing the horrors to speak out loud and clear, so that the reader can enter the moral vacuum the events seem to suggest. But this is poetry, and the music of these poems is part of the meaning throughout, much of the power deriving from metaphor and the wonderful ‘making strange’ of unfamiliar names.
              William Bedford, Royal Literary Fund Fellow, Oxford Brookes University 
                                                  and author of  Happiland and The Lost Mariner.

Gordon Wilson drags the depths of Grimsby's past to write a verse history of the town's fishing apprentices, an account rich in characters and characterful voices, a book of salt tears and frozen shame.
              Anthony Suter author of When You Get To GY

Gordon Wilson’s poems though tender, are unsentimental and unflinching.  Each poem is a story in itself. He isn’t just a poet, but an accomplished storyteller who focuses on the details that count; the details that bring the boys’ plight to life.   Here’s a writer who knows the power of what’s not said.         
              Mandy Sutter:  poet and novelist.  Author of Game and Parenthesis

A remarkable collection of haunting and tender poems, which capture the stark tragedy of our fishing heritage. Each poem is a narrative gem which builds together to reveal an almost ghostly portrait of the dark and brutal world upon which the wealth of Britain’s ports were built. I ached with sadness as I read these verses, for behind each one lies a real person caught up in a human nightmare that is almost beyond imagining. Wilson has given a voice to voiceless and has created a moving memorial to those men, women and young boys who suffered and died, unmarked and unloved.
                Karen Maitland author of A Company of Liars and The Owl Killers.

I strongly  endorse him as a poet that should reach a wider readership through publication of Grimsby Bound.
                Paul Sutherland Editor of Dreamcatcher magazine.