We’ve published another book!

Following the success of Jim Henderson’s book about Arran’s Clearance-impelled migrations to Canada, Voice for Arran Online is producing something quite different – a book of thoroughly silly poems by our editor, Alison Prince. It is called Flying Cat, the title taken from a zany papier maché sculpture by Zoe Tomalin, and all readers are invited to a launch for it, to be held in Corrie Hall on Friday, May 10th at 8.00pm.

Here’s a sample. As you’ll gather, this is not the heavy-handed kind of poetry. As it says on the jacket, it’s ‘just for some kind of fun’. Yours for £7.50.

Gerald Ting

Gerald Ting was phoney-sexed.
He lived for bleeping lines of text
and even in the works canteen
had never once looked up and seen
sweet Tracey of the luscious lips
who always gave him extra chips.
While smiling at his messages
he hardly saw her sausages.
Tracey was of course enraged
at being so thoughtlessly upstaged
and so, with clumsy-handed ease,
she doused his phone with mushy peas.
“Ooh, ‘eck,” she said, without surprise.
The hapless Gerald met her eyes
and dropped his phone into the bin.
Tracey. ‘OK,’ he said. ‘You win.’