Drink the Green Fairy

About the Book: 

Brian Whittingham walks the streets of Glasgow, dips into people's lives and delves into the world of the Impressionist painters. Like looking through a family album, his poems are quick snapshots, focusing on the particular of the ordinary and yet widening the gaze to the universal in life.

Reviews: 

It is a warm and attractive collection, with a characteristic blend of sympathetic observation and sharp social comment. EDWIN MORGAN

 He's stuck to his own path over the years and produced the finest collection of poetry I've read for years. DES DILLON

About the Author:

BRIAN WHITTINGHAM born and living in Glasgow, is a poet, playwright, fiction writer, editor and creative writing tutor. Recent poetry collections include Drink the Green Fairy and The Old Man From Brooklyn and the Charing Cross Carpet. Recent plays include Smugglers and Black-Damp and The Devil’s Dandruff. In 1994 he received the Yaddo residency, and in 2000 he won first prize in the Sunday Herald Short Story Competition. His poems and stories have been widely published in anthologies and magazines. A former steelworker/draughtsman, he performed his steel-working poems as part of the BBC’s ‘Ballad of the Big Ships Live’ in Glasgow’s Royal Concert Hall in 2007. He has performed and lectured in the UK, Europe and the USA, in places as diverse as beaches, universities, prisons, pubs, schools and colleges. He is currently a lecturer in creative writing at Glasgow’s College of Nautical Studies.