Michael Mullen

Goonie (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Goonie, the raw and joyful debut collection from award-winning Scottish poet and spoken word artist Michael Mullen, begs the question what is community? What do we owe it and what does it owe us?

Whether exploring queerness through fierce lyrical poetry or celebrating Mullen's beloved Scotland through vernacular vignettes, Goonie's main preoccupation is how we form the community around us and how it, in turn, forms us.

Many of the themes are encapsulated by the title poem as the narrator readies themselves to take the stage and perform for their older relatives wearing an old goonie (a nightdress).

In Goonie, the oral tradition of Scots combines with whip-sharp Glaswegian humour to bring alive in language and form the full spectrum of human connection: working class friends gathering round a fire, a living room ceilidh, a queer awakening. These poems show the power of acceptance, togetherness and creative expression.

Mullen's life as a performer and poet, a son, a Scot, a working-class kid, comes together on the page to deliver a collection that casts a sceptical eye on identity whilst championing it, Ultimately, Goonie address the ties that bind us and a testament to how love - of ourselves, our heritage, our landscape, each other - transforms everything.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472158802
• Artikelnr.: 72468647

Autorenporträt

Michael Mullen is a queer poet, writer and spoken word artist from Glasgow. Writing in both Scots and Standard English, Mullen's primary concern is Scotland - its languages and its people. Years of work in hospitality and later as a support worker has put ordinary people at the forefront of their poetry. Whether on the stage or the page, Mullen's love of character and language champions identity whilst dissecting it. He was the co-winner of the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2023-4 as well as the Scottish National Slam runner up in 2022. He appeared on Life and Rhymes with Benjamin Zephaniah on Sky Arts and his work has been published in various places including Neu Reekie! Neu Voices, Bella Caledonia, Paisley Mill Magazine, Rymour Books, Glasgow City of Poets and Seahorse Publications. Goonie is their first collection.