Woof! Woof! Woof! by Rob A. Mackenzie scottish poetry literary recalls

literary recalls

even as the speaker suffers

the challenges they face within both communities and the taboos around mental health within their ancestral communities

The poems of this dazzling second collection are of contradictory impulses: of abundance and famine

and a habit of always somehow looking in the opposite direction from everybody else

Woof! Woof! Woof! by Rob A. Mackenzie scottish poetry literary recallsIn a radical departure in style and tone, Rob A. Mackenzie's new collection, Woof! Woof! Woof!, offers biting satire and sweeping social commentary. From the murk of political engagement in an age of offence sensibility, to the bleached out culture of munificent late capitalism, Mackenzie's experimental poems take the reader on an engaging and engaged descent into the sort of purgatory we may never choose to escape from, yet his impish wit offers us