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Throughout this collection, opposites collide - reality and delusion, political activism and apathy, friend and enemy, life and death. These poems cut away at convention and simmer with unsettling, dramatic images. Ironic and humorous, complex and engaging, you can't do without The Opposite of Cabbage.
List of contents
- Light Storms from a Dark Country
- Voices
- The Listeners
- White Noise
- Scottish Sonnet Ending in American
- Fallen Villages of the North
- Moving On
- Scotlands
- Nuclear Submarines
- Everyone Will Go Crazy
- The Loser
- While the Moonies are Taking Over Uruguay
- Berlusconi and the National Grid
- Shopping List
- Patenting The
- Bananas
- Scotland
- How New York You Are
- The Look
- Hot Shit
- Slimming
- Girl Playing Sudoku on the Seven-Fifteen
- Homes of the Future Exhibition
- In the Last Few Seconds
- Benediction
- Hospital
- Visiting Hour
- Advice from the Lion Tamer to the Poetry Critic
- A Creative Writing Tutor Addresses his Star Pupil
- The Kingdom
- Married Life in the Nineties
- The Deconstruction Industry
- Hangover Hotel
- Edinburgh in Summer
- Jacko Holed Up In Blackfriars Street B and B??
- My Dentist, Aniela
- Breaking the Hoodoo
- Sevenling (Elizabeth had II)
- Plastic Cork
- Sky Blue
- The Preacher's Ear
- Holiday at the New Butlins
- Glory Box
- The Scuffle
About the author
Rob A. Mackenzie was born in Glasgow and lives in Edinburgh. His previous work includes
The Good News (Salt 2013) and
The Opposite of Cabbage (Salt 2009) and two pamphlets:
Fleck and the Bank (Salt 2012), which dramatized a bank employee's life during the financial crisis, and
The Clown of Natural Sorrow, (HappenStance Press 2005). He is reviews editor at
Magma Poetry and his poems, reviews and articles have been published in
Poetry Review,
Poetry London,
The Dark Horse,
The North,
Shearsman Magazine and many other publications. Phil Clement wrote in the
New Welsh Review of
The Good News: "It feels as though the poems are charged, booby-trapped... The joy in reading this collection is found in riddling your own perspectives on fate, faith, travel and death."
