Phil Brown s poetry is the kind of work you should give to people who think poetry is elitist , or simply too hard to be bothered with. His is the inspiration that comes while you are waiting for that pizza, hitching a ride to a country town on a misty morning, or watching a Chuck Norris video. It s a conversational style that hooks you like the opening lines of a good journalistic piece no surprise here, since Brown is a journalist in his workaday world for Brisbane News, which helps him keep a finger on the artistic pulse of his hometown. This is poetry from inside the real world of a jaded, happy, metropolitan man.