Drink the Green Fairy

Brian Whittingham walks the streets of Glasgow, dips into people's lives and delves into the world of the Impressionist painters. Like looking through a family album, his poems are quick snapshots, focusing on the particular of the ordinary and yet widening the gaze to the universal in life.

Brian Whittingham Brian Whittingham is a former shipyard worker and now works as a Freelance Creative Writing Lecturer in colleges, community centres and schools. He has taught in places as diverse as Edinburgh Castle, Barlinnie prison, Seattle University, and on Normandy beaches. He has previously published four poetry collections, including Drink the Green Fairy, written three plays and various short fiction. He is the co-editor of New Writing Scotland.