About the book:

Well-known as a stand-up comic and folk musician, Mike Harding is now equally known for his rich and varied poetry.

Music, place, landscape, politics, memories and stories have always been Mike Harding’s creative touchstones, never more so than in The Lonely Zoroastrian, his first collection since the 2020 pandemic and lockdown, both of which feature in this book.

Storytelling is the essence of his work whether telling the true story of a lost city buried under the ice cap, the curse an old Ukrainian woman laid on a group of Russian soldiers or stories from his beloved Connemara like Islandman and St Luke’s Little Summer.

From his ‘little shed of words’ here is Mike Harding ‘singing about the dark times’.

This collection will be key for fans of Mike Harding’s work. People interested in current issues and world politics will also prove a target audience for The Lonely Zoroastrian.

Praise for Mike Harding:

He exactly catches the coiled-up forces of natural energy. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT on Daddy Edgar’s Pools

Harding is a polymath is an indicator of a mind given to intellectual curiosity, of not remaining static. STEVE WHITAKER, Yorkshire Times on The Connemara Cantos