Published by Go Faster Stripe, illustrations by Katie Pope, .

'A lovely, engaging writer finding the joyous in the everyday.'
- Stuart Maconie

'His work has a winning gentleness, a seductive voice that draws you in, ensnares you and captivates you.'
- Ian McMillan

'John's story left me and my children spellbound and in tears,' Stewart Lee in The Observer, on Don't Need the Sunshine on Radio 4.

"There’s an extraordinary warmth in Osborne’s verse fired by a rare ability to see joy and beauty in the commonplace" - The New European.

Poems about supermarkets and the people who use them. We meet two paramedics in the crisps aisle, a butcher on the meat counter who is considering vegetarianism, love blooms as two people on their own with baskets say hi to each other. We join staff with untucked shirts sitting on kick stools stacking shelves and find that every aisle really does tell a different story.

The Alcohol Aisle was longlisted in the 2020 National Poetry Competition.

Food Banks was Poem of the Week in Bella Caledonia.

John Osborne writes poems, books and stories. His first theatre show John Peel’s Shed received five-star reviews from The Independent and The Scotsman. He has written and performed six half-hour storytelling shows for Radio 4 and his poems have been broadcast on Radio 1, Radio 3, Radio 4, XFM and BBC 6Music. In 2015 After Hours, the sitcom he created with Molly Naylor was broadcast on Sky 1, directed by Craig Cash and starring Jaime Winstone and Ardal O’Hanlon.