Cask Strength -

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Editeur : Burning Eye Books

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/03/2026

ISBN : 1913958655

Résumé :

Staggering through the heather like a ramfeezled Monarch of the Glen after a night on the randan, Elvis McGonagall is back with his trademark blend of satirical verse, anarchic wit and dazzling Weltschmerz as he takes a spin round Bus-Replacement-Service Britain and beyond. War, famine, pestilence and Gregg Wallace. What a world. The apricot hellbeast is slouching round the White House, Babylon's burning and God's too busy taking selfies and posting TikTok videos to notice. But dinnae fash yersel. Just find a comfy chair, open a bottle of single malt and join Elvis as he desperately searches for some silver lining in the gathering storm clouds. From BYO boozy Bozza bantz to Sir Keir's karaoke toolshed via Marxist cockerpoos and tech-bro-billionaire bullshit, it's all here in Cask Strength, 5 years' worth of 55 degree proof poetry - think Ken Dodd's Happiness sung by Leonard Cohen. With pictures for those who don't like words.

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Biographie:
Stand-up poet, comedian and broadcaster, armchair revolutionary and walking shortbread tin Elvis McGonagall resides at the Graceland Caravan Park just outside Brigadoon where he scribbles satirical verse while drinking malt whisky and listening to Johnny Cash.Two series of his sitcom Elvis McGonagall Takes a Look on the Bright Side have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4, where he appears regularly as well as popping up now and then on the telly. Elvis is the 2006 World Slam champion, the comp?re of the Blue Suede Sporran Club and performs at literary and music festivals, comedy and cabaret clubs, pubs and dodgy dives up and down the country and abroad. He also gigs and records with his band The Resurrectors, an unholy marriage of whisky-soaked, radical, stand-up poetry and Caledonian punkabilly rock 'n' roll and occasionally moonlights as Chairman Wow, chief word-slinger and vocalist with funk collective The People's Republic of Groove.A deftly witty wordsmith, sharp and subversive but not afraid to be plain daft, Elvis has been kicking down the rotting doors of power since 2003. And look at the state of the world now. So that's 23 years of ruined footwear and not the slightest hint of a glorious revolution to show for it.Two previous collections of his poems have been published by Burning Eye Books - Viva Loch Lomond! (poems from 2003 to 2017) and Complete & Utter Cult! (poems from 2017 to 2020). With this third volume Elvis McGonagall continues his journey along the long, winding, potholed road from the Slough of Despond to showbiz El Dorado. Without a Sat-Nav. Or map. Or even a shoogly walking stick.www.elvismcgonagall.co.uk...