A Straight Up Giant

A collection of fairytale poems and musings, featuring the character Marcie, explore themes of seriousness, comedy, bravery, cowardice, engagement, disengagement, urgency, and unurgency. The poems are accompanied by laconic passages that provide commentary and insight.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 112 pages
Publication date: 22 June 2023
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Serious, comic, brave, cowardly, engaged, disengaged, urgent, unurgent, chattering chiffchaff, talking horses, unpretentious, pretentious, all of God's creatures are here. There's also an almost – but not quite – dialogue between the poems and the laconic (and sometimes furious) musings of the passages that punctuate them. There are a series of fairytale poems, and others that give unfettered voice to Marcie, a character who has appeared in Mark Waldron's previous books. Behind the humor and playfulness, there is always something deeply unmeant, meant.

Serious, comic, brave, cowardly, engaged, disengaged, urgent, unurgent, chattering chiffchaff, talking horses, unpretentious, pretentious, all of God's creatures are here. There's also an almost – but not quite – dialogue between the poems and the laconic (and sometimes furious) musings of the passages that punctuate them. There are a series of fairytale poems, and others that give unfettered voice to Marcie, a character who has appeared in Mark Waldron's previous books. Behind the humor and playfulness, there is always something deeply unmeant, meant.

Weight: 226g
Dimension: 156 x 233 x 11 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781780376691