Monthly Archives: December 2011

Forky Murder Sno-Cat

Posted on December 25, 2011 by

(For this festive offering, we give you the full lyric sheet for ‘Forky the Snow-Mule’, plus the first sighting of the infamous Murder Bear. WARNING: do not approach or attempt to apprehend this poem, the text is armed and highly … Continue reading →

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Once Were Informationists

Posted on December 22, 2011 by

(This review of Peter McCarey’s collected pamphlets appeared in Edinburgh Review 132, and is a look at what some Scottish poets did post-MacDiarmid and pre-Internet.) Peter McCarey, Collected Contraptions (Carcanet), 173pp, £14.95 Truth is sunk in information (‘Variations for Richard … Continue reading →

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