Come on in!: New Poems

'The thing about Bukowski is, when you read what he has to say, he's right.' Sean Penn

Now published in the UK for the first time, Come On In! is Charles Bukowski at his sad, hilarious, renegade best:
a sequence of poems you'll want to read from beginning to end.

Bukowski's unmistakable charisma - an ex-down-and-outer who wrote of booze and loneliness in maverick, confident free verse - made him one of the world's most popular poets.

This collection is from an archive that the author left to be published after his death. It includes poems of love and sex, advice to so-called losers (as he once was) to have confidence in themselves (as he did), gambling laments and poems accepting his own imminent ultimate full stop.

'If you have never read Bukowski you've got a treat in store.' Lemn Sissay

'In an age of conformity Bukowski wrote about the people nobody wanted to be: the ugly, the selfish, the lonely,
the mad.' Observer

'The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.'
Joyce Carole Oates

'He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.' Leonard Cohen

'A laureate of American low life.' Time