The launch of ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF JIMMY DENISOVICH by GRAHAM FULTON
A new collection of poems published by Smokestack Books.
Saturday 13th September 2014, 7 pm.
Street Level Photoworks
Should we accept the world as it is or rebel against it? Whether we choose love or hate, make the law or break it, go mad or snatch brief moments of happiness, we all must cling to someone or something to complete the ‘me-shaped space’ of our lives.
One Day in the Life of Jimmy Denisovich is a book about entropy and cruelty, ‘shrapnel heads’ and airport toilets, digestive biscuits and marmalade. It’s about trying to keep calm in a random and accelerating universe. A mercilessly bleak Totentanz of shoplifters, bankers, looters, dead poets and men who can’t tie their own shoelaces.
‘A poet of the engaged moment. When you take a walk in a Graham Fulton poem you know you’ve been somewhere and that you’d like to take a stroll again in the same company. There are poems here that invigorate like a hard walk across the fells or a run from the law. Funny as fuck, too.’
Tom Pickard
‘As we know, poetry books don’t sell well, but it would be gratifying to see this one becoming the exception.’
The Herald
‘I’ve always been a huge fan.’
Liz Lochhead
Graham Fulton is the author of six full-length poetry collections including Humouring the Iron Bar Man (Polygon), Open Plan (Smokestack Books) and Full Scottish Breakfast (Red Squirrel Press). He’s also produced over fifteen pamphlet collections, many of which combine poetry, illustration and photography, and is the co-author of Pub Dogs of Glasgow whichis to be published by Freight Books in 2014.
Website: www.grahamfulton-poetry.com