Chris Boyland – Stewed Rhubarb Press https://stewedrhubarb.org A poetry publisher from Scotland Mon, 27 Apr 2020 14:20:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/stewedrhubarb.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/cropped-sr-insignia-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Chris Boyland – Stewed Rhubarb Press https://stewedrhubarb.org 32 32 144918431 User Stories by CD Boyland https://stewedrhubarb.org/product/user-stories-cd-boyland/ Mon, 06 Apr 2020 16:25:06 +0000 https://stewedrhubarb.org/?post_type=product&p=880 User Stories resonates with the anxiety expressed by David Bowie when he said, “I’m just a collection of other people’s voices” whilst simultaneously addressing the conditions of modern living. Not the conditions we live in, but those we’re forced to accept in order to live in 21st-century, post-Brexit, pandemic Britain. Balanced on knife-edge dilemmas, these poems speak from the ancient past to the present, recasting familiar conflicts into mythic new shapes.

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