Full collection 72 pages. ISBN 978-1-909404-12-0.
The Loveliest Vein of our Lives: A Journey Through Brazil — Neil Leadbeater’s fifth collection.
These poems and prose poems have the propulsion of a road movie: charming, arresting and vivid. Seemingly written off the cuff, they are actually very well crafted. His voice is fresh and open, resonant and memorable.
David Mark Williams
The Loveliest Vein of Our Lives takes the reader on an exotic journey of four parts through both rural and urban landscapes, creating a powerful sense of the experience of Brazil that Leadbeater wants to share with us.
Denni Turp




