Chips, Paracetamol and Wine

Smokestack Books, 2020
124 pages, £8
ISBN 978-1-9163121-0-4

Chips, paracetamol and wine. The things we need to keep us alive, and the things we need to dull the pain of being alive. These are poems about the weakness, foolishness and brilliance of human life, places rarely visited, poems without convenient endings. Hopeful and hopeless, detached and engaged. Poems about lost cats and stuffed dogs, Jimmy Johnstone and Kylie's golden pants. Chips, paracetamol and wine holds up a mirror to the world, reflecting the chaos just below the surface, just the way things are.

Fulton writes very well about the absurdity and the pain of being alive in the 21st Century ... holds up a cracked mirror to the world, reflecting the chaos just below the surface.'

Morning Star