David Ross Linklater: Star Muck Bourach

Wish Fulfillment Press is thrilled to present this publication of David Ross Linklater’s latest poetry collection - Star Muck Bourach. 

With great candour, working class realism and a folklore very personal; Star Muck Bourach gives soap box to the untamed small things within the greater picture of a north highland coastal life. Empathetic, assured and reflective. Juxtaposing contemporary observations and events with the speaking, tellings and rose-tinted half rememberings of growing up in the rural N.E of Scotland throughout the 90’s/00’s. An agricultural energy between the earth and those that inhabit the highlands, weathered by changing climates and an ageing manifesto of traditional values and dialects left by the village ghosts of yesteryear. A footprint in the star muck out-with the corporate gaze of the built up urban areas in Scotland. As we grind bitterly to the drum of the new normal of 21st century poetry; capital driven, painfully overly theatrical spoken word in seemingly every television advert for your bank, internet provider and supermarket. This poet’s frank yet gentle way of writing and describing these quiet happenings, subtly nods to a Kerouac beat school attention to creative and descriptive detail whilst simultaneously bearing ominous weighting to wording in its own colloquially Scottish manner.

A note from the writer: Star Muck Bourach is rooted in the rural landscape of the Scottish Highlands, with its many voices of the farm, field and shore. Perspectives shift from past to present, exploring how we relate to the land, each other and our heritage. The poems seek out the wonder of the mundane, of memory and nostalgia for a place that may or may not have existed. They are celebrations of the sweet and humbling music of the natural world and our place in it, each trying to find meaning from lived experience because, when it’s all said and done, we are just a pile of star muck swirled in a bourach.

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David Ross Linklater is a poet from Balintore, Easter Ross. His work has appeared in The Dark Horse, Bath Mag, New Writing Scotland, Gutter and One Hand Clapping, amongst others. He is the recipient of a Dewar Arts Award and has been shortlisted for a New Writers Award and the Edwin Morgan Award. He lives and writes in Glasgow.

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