Graham Fulton – författare

Alice in Wonderland meets David Brent: exploring the humdrum of 9-5 office work.These days most of us earn our daily bread sweating over spreadsheets, agendas and unanswered e-mails. There are 10 million office-workers in the UK, sharing over 200 million square metres of office space. And yet office work has rarely been the subject of poetry. Graham Fulton writes with wit and compassion of the world of e-mails, post-its, tea-breaks and sickies, of the little rituals, the red tape and the flexi hours, punctuated by moments of mayhem."Here's a poet who explores the world with wit, irony and intelligence..."David CrystalGraham Fulton has been writing poetry since the 1980s when he co-founded the influential Itinerant Poets performance and publishing group. His poetry has been published in the likes of The Rialto, Other Poetry, Poetry Scotland and The North, as well as in the anthologies Scotlands (Carcanet, 2004) and Scottish Poems (Macmillan, 2007). He now runs Controlled Explosion Press. His previous collections include Humouring the Iron Bar Man, This, Knights of the Lower Floors, Ritual Soup and Other Liquids, Inner Circle and Pocket Fugues (2009). He lives in Paisley.

If you don't want to see fear in a handful of dust, then look away now. How do we control the uncontrollable or reconcile the irreconcilable? 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 of poems about entropy and cruelty, 'shrapnel heads' and airport toilets, digestive biscuits and marmalade. It's a 1970's double album about trying to keep calm in a random and accelerating universe.

Graham Fulton's many books of poetry include Humouring the Iron Bar Man (1990), Knights of the Lower Floors (1994), Open Plan (2011), Full Scottish Breakfast (2011), Upside Down Heart (2012) and Reclaimed Land (2013). He lives in Scotland.

Chips, paracetamol and wine. The things we need to keep us alive, and the things we need to dull the pain of being alive.These are poems about the weakness, foolishness and brilliance of human life, places rarely visited, poems without convenient endings. Hopeful and hopeless, detached and engaged, this is a book about dunderheids and smackheads, lost cats and stuffed dogs, Charles Bukowski, Jimmy Johnstone and Kylie’s golden pants. Chips, Paracetamol and Wine holds up a mirror to the world, reflecting the chaos just below the surface; just the way things are.