This poetry collection showcases the unique voice of its award-winning author, known for their innovative approach. It reflects contemporary themes and engages with current societal issues, offering fresh perspectives through evocative language and imagery. The work is a celebration of creativity and thought, pushing the boundaries of traditional poetry while resonating with readers on multiple levels.
The Games is a book of play with language. In Scots and English, it mucks about with sound poetry, found poetry, computer-generated poetry, dirty poetry and others ways to blur and bust the borders of genre. Its themes are ecology, power and sex: how can you have fun in a system that's trying to take power away from you? The Games makes and breaks rules in an effort to live a full life in a full world.
Deep Wheel Orcadia is, effortlessly, a first: a science-fiction verse-novel written in the Orcadian dialect, it's also the first full-length book in the Orkney language in over fifty years.