@danigaravelli.bsky.social if you’d be interested in a look at this new book of mine please DM - happy to end a copy. People like it…

Stop looking like a purse. How could a purse
squeeze under the rickety door and sit,
full of satisfaction, in a man’s house?

—Norman MacCaig, “Toad”
published in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)
#poem #poetry #BookWormSat
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It’s publication day for HIGH BALL TO THE WEE MAN

“Exuberant, varied and at times almost moves you to tears - just like Scotland's World Cup misadventures. Walsh captures them so well in this delightful, inimitable wee book”
Jonathan Northcroft - Sunday Times

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Necessary ‘open the box’ shot. HIGH BALL TO THE WEE MAN - my Scotland at the World Cup poem sequences - available for preorder here yorkbookshop.com/poetry-and-d... and the usual places …

@scotfootballmuseum.bsky.social this new book includes a sequence of three poems that is based on your wonderful Archie Gemmill exhibit -

Thanks so much!

@asls.org.uk how about a little repost of the cover for my new poetry book HIGH BALL TO THE WEE MAN - in which I measure out my life in Scotland World Cup campaigns - out on 1st Oct and available for preorder in the usual places now???

Issue 37 features, I’m pleased to say, my tale of a confraternal and carb-loaded weekend with the Scotland-daft fanáticos of @sdeibar.bsky.social

If you watch this little film you’ll see the front page of my article in Nutmeg 35 about Ted McMinn and Jock Wallace’s adventures at Seville, the only place in the world (as the old joke went) that Jock could find more Orangemen than on the Copland Road.