Poetry. Music. This particular pamphlet is beautifully designed, printed on high-stock paper, with a proper spine and an ultra-cool cover. It features over 16 punk-rock-style song lyrics--zany, witty, brilliant, sometimes startling --by the master poet of songs played by his band, Rogue Oliphant. An album/LP is to follow (not from Eyewear). At a time when the Nobel is recognising the beauty and value of lyrics as a form of literature, here comes a great contender...
Academic, slow-motion crime writer, dad, Kilmarnock supporter, adoptive New Zealander. The Heretic (sequel to The Quaker) out now from HarperCollins.
Loved this collection of ‘posthumously discovered poems and song lyrics’ by Johnny Cash, with an intro by the great Paul Muldoon reading Cash in the context of the Scots ballad tradition and his distant Dunfermline origins… #RingofFife https://t.co/a6NIVaolUN