A slim volume of verse, like a bicycle,offers us new and exciting and sometimesterrifying ways of seeing the everydayworld.James Brown's eighth collection of poems begins in childhood andmoves through education, jobs and the essential pointless activitiesthat occupy our lives, before arriving in a post-apocalyptic future.These poems observe with bemusement and distressed humour.Sometimes they splurge; sometimes they hardly speak. Brown is athis best when he claims to have nothing to say.