Press

 ”Brighton based Ben Graham, one of my favourite poets of all time. Ben Graham manages to handle the art of  storytelling with such ease it sounds like a language of his own. An illusive professional distance, always ending up tying the knot together with precision, whilst underneath and between the lines you sense the fire of a raging northern soul.” -Andreas Grant, poet/promoter, BEAT, Glitterbeast, the NOT night etc. 

 ”…Some gorgeously squalid turns-of-phrase and a darkly comic view of the more squalid edges of Brighton life. A gothgasm of pique” – Brighton Source.

  “Many of Ben’s poems make reference to pop culture, like the humorous yet poignant The Shaun Ryder Memorial Rest Home for Aging Ravers, and the very personal I Remember John Peel… With its simplicity, repetition and blatant rhymes, The Devil Is An Englishman possesses the down-to-earth pop song accessibility of something by Adrian Mitchell… Postcard From Newport, Wales has a little of the catch-all observational quality of another Adrian about it- Mersey poet Mr Henri- with its contrast of the timeless and the present day-encapsulating lines about charity shop Shirley Bassey albums and heavy metal clubs” – Stephen Drennan, Bypass.   

 ”Ben Graham is either scared of nothing, or scared of everything. He writes about the things that matter to him: his love hate relationship with his body, sex and sexual hang-ups, rock and roll, death and confrontational religious confusion” – Jimmy Prue, Bypass.