Blueprint for Life

First edition. 8vo. 112pp. Glossy pictorial wraps. Monochrome photos and book design by Lee Thomas.

Hollingsworth's third collection of poetry. Written at break-neck speed, raw and usually unedited, the material is drawn from a British urban landscape and features subjects such as love, drugs, crime, prostitution, fantasy and dreams. By the self-published author of Ipswich Zero 6, about the 2006 red-light district Suffolk Murders and based on his interviews with half a dozen women who worked there as prostitutes.

"Through a combination of personal funding, PR skills, performance and persistence, Hollingsworth has made this collection the best-selling poetry title in the UK in 2004." –Cameron Self, www.poetsgraves.co.uk