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End Ceremonies by Stuart McPherson is at times tender, at times wounded, the poems exploding outwards into a galaxy of miraculous imagery and "an infinitude of Octopus eyes".

End Ceremonies by Stuart McPherson is at times tender, at times wounded, the poems exploding outwards into a galaxy of miraculous imagery and "an infinitude of Octopus eyes". The themes are often dark, fighting bare fisted with the dualities found within self-discovery and identity, but written in such compelling, haunted, and hypnotic tones, that the work becomes irresistible. These are poems of closure and rebirth, where the "shapes of ghost...

Iain lives in the Highlands where a movie is being filmed. He is thrilled to be chosen to play a part alongside well-known twin child stars Carol and Melody. Then odd and unpleasant things start to happen.

Obligate Carnivore is an immaculate introduction to Stuart McPherson's poetry. Painted in the jagged brushstrokes of wounded masculinity and childhood trauma, McPherson excavates new darkness. The haunted images - wolves, corpses, moons and abattoirs - are not only vessels for McPherson's poems, but form part of an internal nightmare logic, creatures of the hell McPherson is trying to escape from. Writing, which as Barthes wrote: "is the destr...

Waterbearer is remarkable and irrepressible like an asteroid tearing through the atmosphere, leaving exit wounds. Haunting and haunted, "like snow / for the beautiful dead