Automatic Writing

In Automatic Writing, John Brewster, moves from 'ixey-pixey' wordplay to tender elegy; from Scots to English; from celebrations of life to intimations of a longing for death. These poems are precise - Brewster is a master of the 'architectured word' - yet there is a sense of something bigger and unwritten beyond the words on the page. This is poetry that speaks to the soul, the heart, the mind, the eye, the ear. John Brewster is a Scottish poet writing in English and Scots. He works as a writing tutor, belongs to the Scottish Book Trust's pool of authors and is a Scots Patron of Reading. He has worked as an editor and translator, co-founding literary magazines and publishing the writing of others in courses he has taught. He is a qualifi ed teacher, with a First in Divinity from St Andrews University.