Take a closer look at your neighbours on the bus, in the shops, and on the street.

Where did they come from? What did they do in their working lives? What can they still do, despite their age or current disability? What makes life easy or difficult for them? Listen to them. Let them tell you about their loves, fears, ambitions, and needs. Share your own stories with them.

These people are part of an increasingly varied contemporary Britain. Value them, as these poems do, upon reading Robert Ferguson's "Everyone On My Street."