Equal Night launch of new collection of poems by Graham Fulton, Streetlevel Photoworks, 16 September, 2017
Equal Night
a new collection of poems
by Graham Fulton
published by Salmon Poetry
Streetlevel Photoworks
Trongate 103, Glasgow G1 5HD, UK
Saturday 16 September , 2017 7pm
‘His myriad sometimes quirky tabulation of objects fashions and local people in action has made Graham Fulton’s poetry a distinct personal telling of urban culture in the west of Scotland. Now this previously sometimes detached, sometimes sardonic voice has recorded a journey through the experience of seeing the onset of terminal illness, hospitalisation and death of a mother. I think the cumulative effect is extraordinary, the most convincing, honest, matter of fact and unsettling account of the nitty-gritty of “going through the daily motions” of confronting death and the estrangement of close family bereavement that I have read, certainly in my own culture. Graham Fulton’s poetry sequence carries the unmistakeable truth of genuine necessary art. ‘
Tom Leonard
GRAHAM FULTON BIOGRAPHY
Graham Fulton has been writing poetry for 31 years. His 11 published full-length books are Humouring the Iron Bar Man (Polygon, 1990), Knights of the Lower Floors (Polygon, 1994), Open Plan (Smokestack Books, 2011), Full Scottish Breakfast (Red Squirrel Press, 2011), 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), Edible Transmitters (Bibliotecha Universalis (Romania), 2015), Brian Wilson in Swansea Bus Station (Red Squirrel Press, 2015) and Paragraphs at the End of the World (Penniless Press Publications, 2016).
He’s the co-author of Pub Dogs of Glasgow (Freight Books, 2014), Pub Dogs of London (Freight Books, 2015) and Pub Dogs of Manchester (Freight Books, 2015). He has also published over 20 pamphlet collections. He lives in Paisley.
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