'This is Gary Langford's twenty-seventh book and his eleventh collection of poetry. The Family Album & Other Poems is a culminating sequel to two other books of poetry Gary has written on his family - The Family (with coloured photographs), which is his first collection, and Four Ships and Other Poems, which is his second collection. The Family Album & Other Poems also contains artwork from three paintings the author has done recently. While he has done graphics before in a few of his books and theatre shows he has directed, this is the first book to use some of his paintings. Gary's work is serious and comical, commonly at the same time, which is the method he has used in all his work, whether prose, poetry, plays or scripts he has written for the media over the years. His paintings unify visual expression with words. ' (From publisher's blurb)
