Collecting poems with a sense of anxiety or an underlying itch – sometimes with a drop of wry humour – You Worry Too Much is the debut pamphlet of Nottingham-born poet Nathan Fidler. There are poems for people long gone, for people still here, and for tiny insects. There are poems about the strangeness of being alive, here with you. Often written last thing at night in the moments before nodding off, or after the buzz of a coffee in the morning, they acknowledge that we get these feelings sometimes, of doubt, of worry. Don’t you? There aren’t really any answers here, this isn’t a self-help pamphlet. You’ll just have to sit with that vague feeling for a while.

Nathan Fidler’s keen interest in science fiction first turned him to words, something he’s managed to use in his career as a copywriter in Nottingham. While studying for his Creative Writing degree he became hooked on writing poetry, but shortly after graduating he managed to quit. Then he fell off the wagon again. His work has been published in several magazines, including Rialto and The North.