In 2008 the 1,000-year-old city of Liverpool was designated European City of Culture. The award accompanied a period of urban renewal which for good and bad left in its wake a century-old culture.

The outcome was a wake to which Michael Walsh raised The Parting Glass. Before the bulldozers moved in and the venture capitalists descended the acclaimed writer and poet penned an evocative tribute to a disappearing Liverpool.

A world traveller, the lyricist was inspired by universal love and respect for his home city.

He says, ‘We enjoyed a celebrity status.’ His verse captures the soul of Liverpool as it was before the city was transformed. 3,000 copies of A Sea Veneer of Merseyside and Believing of Liverpool were sold out in weeks.

In evocative verse, A Sea Veneer of Liverpool and most importantly the people of Liverpool receive due tribute. Having bravely stepped out across the millennium bridge A Sea Veneer of Liverpool pays homage to a disappearing city.

MICHAEL WALSH Leaving school at 15 years of age, and training as a seaman cadet, Michael was Liverpool’s typical Jolly Jack Tar. 

A great time to be alive, the Bard of Liverpool became friendly or associated with many great Liverpudlians synonymous with the period.  Cy Tucker, Hillsiders, Karl Terry, Earl Preston, Ken Dodd, John and Pat Cordwell, a regular on BBC Radio Merseyside as a guest of Roger and Pauline Daniels, Ricky Tomlinson, Billy Butler, Les and Tricia Brown of Coopers Emporium, and legendary blues guitarist Gary Potter. 

Balladeer Charlie Landsborough among many others praised Michael’s verse.  Frankie O’Connor, and Jukebox Box Eddie, who played with Gerry Lee Lewis.

Noreen, Michael’s sister, was an inseparable friend of Anita Cochrane, Paul McCartney’s girlfriend. This was the background in which Michael found inspiration. A daily visitor to Michael’s family home in Waterloo, Anita went on to bear the child of Paul McCartney’s talented child. 

This worldwide adored poet restores rhythm and heartfelt meaning to poetry.   Because his delightful verse leaves readers scratching their hearts and not their heads, growing numbers who never before considered poetry, have become ardent fans.

Michael has recovered poetry from a pretentious elite.  His verse rhymes and makes sense, breathes emotion, and expresses heartfelt sentiment. 

Reading Michael Walsh’s poetry is like sipping the best claret; one is left with a satisfying warmth.  An expression he hears most is, “You have expressed my deepest feelings perfectly.” 

Michael’s poetry is not a one-topic collection.  His verse mirrors the human condition in all of its strengths, weaknesses, gaiety and poignancy.  In Michael’s delightful writing style, you will discover the heartfelt emotions of true romance.  

Share his love of the countryside, laugh at his humour, journey to far-off lands, and visit many people with this much travelled people’s poet.  You will find fellow feeling with the poor, and the scorned, weep with the bereft, drink with the best, and suffer with the rest.  

In Michael Walsh’s poems, you will find the best nightcap of all, the perfect friend to share your beach or bed experience.  Avoid drinking his poetry, sip it glass by glass.  Savour it, experience it.

Roll his thoughts on the palate of heart and mind.  Michael’s poetry does far more than satisfy: his verse creates new emotional experiences that leave you deep in thought; inspire and enrich you. PLEASE SHARE OUR STORIES

A SEA VENEER OF LIVERPOOL Michael Walsh republishes his 1998 best-selling collection of lyrical tributes to the extraordinary ordinary people of Liverpool. ​Their talent poured from little terraced homes and took the world by storm. In one illustrated volume the Bard of Liverpool raises the nostalgic parting glass to a disappearing age.  CLICK PIC OR LINK FOR MORE INFORMATION https://michaelwalshbooks.wordpress.com/

THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL  ex-Liverpool seaman Michael Walsh, regular television, radio and newspaper personality. Bestseller: 70 stories and over 100 pictures. A first-hand account of the British ships, seafarers, adventures and misadventures (1955 – 1975). A tribute to the ships and seamen of the then-largest merchant marine in history.