The Big Velodrome in the Sky

Red Squirrel Press, 2023
136 pages, £12
ISBN 978-1-913632-27-4

The big velodrome in the sky – racing around trying to explore what’s reality what’s life what’s running away what’s death what we do to capture beauty or try to understand or survive or do more than just survive or go mad tender love and speed and space and drunkenness mad cruel and beautiful randomness and funniness and it’s like the mad dance people do when the plague’s in town and you’ve got a day maybe to live and make sense of it all.

The tone and sensibility in this book are way ahead of the general cultural level which may partly explain why they are unknown to most of the population. Too bad for them, but perhaps one day he ll be read by all Scottish schoolkids who'll throw off their uniforms and dance in the playground with their teachers.

Alan Dent, MQB