David Ross Linklater: Star Muck Bourach
44 Pages | A5 | Poetry Collection | Softcover | Recycled paper stock
Wish Fulfillment Press
(2022)
Wish Fulfillment Press is thrilled to present this publication of David Ross Linklater’s latest poetry collection - Star Muck Bourach.
With great candour, working class realism and a folklore very personal; Star Muck Bourach gives soap box to the untamed small things within the greater picture of a north highland coastal life. Empathetic, assured and reflective. Juxtaposing contemporary observations and events with the speaking, tellings and rose-tinted half rememberings of growing up in the rural N.E of Scotland throughout the 90’s/00’s. An agricultural energy between the earth and those that inhabit the highlands, weathered by changing climates and an ageing manifesto of traditional values and dialects left by the village ghosts of yesteryear. A footprint in the star muck out-with the corporate gaze of the built up urban areas in Scotland. As we grind bitterly to the drum of the new normal of 21st century poetry; capital driven, painfully overly theatrical spoken word in seemingly every television advert for your bank, internet provider and supermarket. This poet’s frank yet gentle way of writing and describing these quiet happenings, subtly nods to a Kerouac beat school attention to creative and descriptive detail whilst simultaneously bearing ominous weighting to wording in its own colloquially Scottish manner.
Choose between a choice of A6 art postcards to receive with your copy of Star Muck Bourach.
Cover/Postcard artwork and layout: phillipjontaylor.com
Publish date: 31st Aug 2022
44 Pages | A5 | Poetry Collection | Softcover | Recycled paper stock
Wish Fulfillment Press
(2022)
Wish Fulfillment Press is thrilled to present this publication of David Ross Linklater’s latest poetry collection - Star Muck Bourach.
With great candour, working class realism and a folklore very personal; Star Muck Bourach gives soap box to the untamed small things within the greater picture of a north highland coastal life. Empathetic, assured and reflective. Juxtaposing contemporary observations and events with the speaking, tellings and rose-tinted half rememberings of growing up in the rural N.E of Scotland throughout the 90’s/00’s. An agricultural energy between the earth and those that inhabit the highlands, weathered by changing climates and an ageing manifesto of traditional values and dialects left by the village ghosts of yesteryear. A footprint in the star muck out-with the corporate gaze of the built up urban areas in Scotland. As we grind bitterly to the drum of the new normal of 21st century poetry; capital driven, painfully overly theatrical spoken word in seemingly every television advert for your bank, internet provider and supermarket. This poet’s frank yet gentle way of writing and describing these quiet happenings, subtly nods to a Kerouac beat school attention to creative and descriptive detail whilst simultaneously bearing ominous weighting to wording in its own colloquially Scottish manner.
Choose between a choice of A6 art postcards to receive with your copy of Star Muck Bourach.
Cover/Postcard artwork and layout: phillipjontaylor.com
Publish date: 31st Aug 2022