The Grinning Years is a little book of poems about being roughly this age, a collaboration between two more or less mature men who have shared a friendship since they met at university in the 1970s.

You can buy a copy here for £5, all proceeds to Amnesty International. You can read a few sample poems before you buy. And, if you like, you can use our bulletin board for any comments, queries or poetic musings of your own.