Pocket Fugues
Controlled Explosion Press, 2009.
20 pages. £5.
ISBN 978-0-9558996-3-8.
A journey taken on a darkening afternoon through the streets of Paisley and Glasgow in photographs and poems. Individuals emerge from the crowd, themes repeat; music and sound unite disparate images so the people come alive. The poems observe with tough love and an unsentimental eye, but you can hear unexpected tenderness and harmony throughout the confusion.
Pocket Fugues is available for purchase online at Word Power Books, in Edinburgh: Order Pocket Fugues, or can be ordered by email: Order Pocket Fuges
Suspect Novelties: order, chaos, the whole etc.
Controlled Explosion Press, 2009.
32 pages. £4.
ISBN 978-0-9558996-2-1.
Testing chaos theory in words. Random couplings are drawn from the dictionary to turn what should be meaningless into a cohesive whole. Funny, profound and surreal in turn. The collection of word pictures in a limited edition hand-crafted pamphlet can be read from any starting point and in either direction. A rare chance to create your own end, middle, beginning.
Suspect Novelties: order, chaos, the whole etc is available for purchase online at Word Power Books, in Edinburgh: Order Suspect Novelties: order, chaos, the whole etc, or can be ordered by email: Order Suspect Novelties: order, chaos, the whole etc
twenty three umbrellas
Controlled Explosion Press, 2009.
28 pages. £5.
ISBN 978-0-9558996-4-5.
A series of chance photographic images that gradually grew into a collection and then into a poem in images and words. Twenty three discarded umbrellas are the characters, and human identity and experience the plot. Things we pass by without a second glance become alive again. Black and white, bleak, beautiful and oddly touching. A limited edition. The poem in each copy is hand-written by Graham Fulton.
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Reading at the StAnza Poetry Festival 2007: Clone of Destiny
Some day I will go to Edinburgh
to see Dolly the Sheep at the Royal Museum.
Frankenstein muncher, superstar ruminant,
James Whale floozy, helix freak.
Boxed on a shrunken acre of soil,
a skimpy ration of virtual grass;
grazing amongst Industrial puffers,
coughing jallopies, cartoon machines.
The milestones of enlightenment.
Auld Reekie at the cutting edge.
It’s alive! It’s alive! said Colin Clive
as he winced at the stitched-up flatskull result
of mucking about with Hollywood brains.
The lightning zinged, the cameras rolled.
A mutton enigma, Da Vinci smile.
Today a cell, tomorrow a Man!
And what did you get out of it Dolly
before your date with the taxidermist?
Extra straw and early arthritis,
dodging a fate of mint sauce and carrots.
I know something you don’t know.
The secrets of life, the age of God.
Post-modern Prometheus Holyrood geeks,
hooves in the footsteps of Bell and Baird.
We’ll raise a dram to your DNA.
Scotland, as usual, showing the way.