Gub Av Scott Mckendry

<p><b>''Gub is unlike anything I have ever read. In a playful demotic that is exhilarating, hilarious and never forced, Scott McKendry makes magic of a Belfast that in other hands would make grim reading. The most exciting poet to come out of the north of Ireland in many years'' Louise Kennedy, author of <i>Tresspasses</i></b><br><br><b>''There is nothing else like this in Irish poetry. A lyrical savant of the highest level, and one of the most exciting writers in Ireland today, McKendry is utterly his own beast'' Michael Nolan, author of <i>Close To Home</i></b><br><br>Hauling the language of Belfast''s ghettoised working-class into contemporary Irish poetry, <i>Gub</i> bears witness to the balaclava''d gunmen, urban warlords and explosions of the final decade of the ''Troubles''. Wearing the lyrical influences - Morrissey, Carson, McGuckian, Longley - of his ''ugly city'' lightly, McKendry''s tightly-wrought structures weave an unprecedented poetry of witness, wittiness, mourning, al