ARGONAUT BOOKS

Join us in the bookshop for the launch of Colin McGuire's new poetry pamphlet 'Ultraviolet' with Bad Betty Press.

Tickets to this event are free and copies of the book will be available for purchase on the night.

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In Ultraviolet, time splinters, teacups explode and two
young brothers wrestle in their childhood bedroom. Like
a hot, quick strike of lightning, Colin McGuire illuminates
the shock of losing his brother to cancer. Strange, tender,
darkly ironic and infused with a bitt ersweet nostalgia, these
poems explore family, illness, grief, splintered memory and
the limits of self-help speak. Ultraviolet light is undetectable
to almost all human eyes. In turn, these poems traverse the
otherwise undetected moments that go on to transform us.

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Colin McGuire won the Out-Spoken Prize for Best Poem
and Film for The Glasgae Boys. An excerpt from his memoir
features in the Scotti sh Queer anthology Fierce Salvage. He
facilitates writi ng workshops in prisons, libraries, schools, and community settings as part of the Live Literature Program with the Scottish Book Trust and Open Book Charity.