Paris Forfar (1994)
In this collection of poems, the Reverend Robert Walker skates again on Duddingston Loch. A goat devours Le Monde in an Ethiopian desert and Pat Kane hits a high note with unexpected consequences.
Mixing Scots and English, verse lyrics with prose poems, David Kinloch’s poetry explores with brio areas of sexual and linguistic marginality, suggesting the strange and haunting links between them. At the heart of this first collection is a long sequence of poems which takes the form of an extended elegy for a gay man who has died from AIDS.
“Dustie-Fute is a real find … at once very serious, playful, surreal, and great fun.”
— Ron Butlin, The Scotsman
“David Kinloch’s poetry is ambitious and oblique … I particularly liked Dustie-Fute (Scots for acrobat) which should be read for its contemporary linguistic insight.”
— Iain Crichton Smith, Scotland on Sunday
