The Lonely Zoroastrian

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 HardingâEUR(TM)s creative touchstones, never more so than in âEURThe Lonely ZoroastrianâEUR(TM), his first collection since the 2020 pandemic and lockdown, both of which feature in some of the earlier poems 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 LukeâEUR(TM)s Little Summer. From his âEURlittle shed of wordsâEUR(TM) here is Mike Harding âEURsinging about the dark timesâEUR(TM).