Saturday 12th November, 7pm
Street Level Photoworks
Graham Fulton will launch his 11th book of Poems, Paragraphs at the End of the World, on 12th November at Street Level. Free and all welcome to attend.
A gathering of Paragraphs, detached retinas of life rising to the surface from out of the black blur of memory. Brief encounters with astronauts, bats, writers and baboons; random files from long gone decades spent walking the everyday mad streets of home and the dead ends of scattered nations, dissecting and recording and forgetting whatever it is that makes existence tick. The human equation. Absurdity, anxiety, hilarity, compassion, loss, violence, beauty. Spidery Einstein trails of clues and symbols forever stretching out for an answer. Always intangible, always brushing the fingertips of our minds for a moment then spinning away into the dark.
Graham Fulton’s books of poetry include Humouring the Iron Bar Man (Polygon, 1990), Reclaimed Land (The Grimsay Press, 2013), One Day in the Life of Jimmy Denisovich (Smokestack Books, 2014), Photographing Ghosts (Roncadora Press, 2014), Continue (Penniless Press Publications, 2015), and Brian Wilson in Swansea Bus Station (Red Squirrel Press, 2015). He is also co-author of Pub Dogs of Glasgow, Pub Dogs of Manchester and Pub Dogs of London, all published by Freight Books. Graham lives in Paisley.
‘Every country needs their Graham Fulton. He’s a prolific, angry, humane, funny, accessible poet.’ -John Glenday