"Hey, Hey, Roscommon"by Denis Collins is the latest publication by The Works and it features 11 poems in a limited edition, hand-made chapbook and on an audio CD. The poems, by Denis Collins, were written as part of his poetry residency with RosFm, a community radio station in Roscommon.

Denis was employed on the Roscommon County Council art@work programme and spent ten day working with RosFm in May writng new poems, making programmes, inputting poems into the station schedule and researching new poetry ideas. During June and early July, Denis completed a suite of eleven poems begun during the residency and published them as part of the final exhibition of the art@work programme.

The eleven poems featured in "Hey, Hey, Roscommon"are Hey, Hey, Roscommon, Jazzman, Vintage Vinly, Bucket On My Head, News Reader, Home Game, Tears, Constable, Ach Anois, Aran and Pat Ingoldsby Saved My Life. The chapbook is a limited edition of 100 copies numbered and signed by the poet.

"The title poem, Hey, Hey, Roscommon is a 'first day' impression of Roscommon, an old town and a new town, a town with streets drenched in rain that by evening had dried to fine dust - that dust that scents the air so distinctively when the dew begins to fall."

The other poems in the collection are written in response to the people that Denis met and worked with during the residency. The poems are not exactly portraits of the people, they are poems inspired by a comment, a question, a story he heard. Some of the poems deal directly with radio - News Reader, Ach Anois, Vintage Vinyl and Jazzman - others are personal stories - Tears, Bucket On My Head and Home Game - while others venture out into the wider world - Aran, Pat Ingoldsby Saved My Life and Constable.

"There is a lot of music in these poems, much humour, some sadness, some Irish, some experimentation, a lot of myself and a lot of my friends in RosFm."