Square Baw

Truly the stuff from which dreams are made. You can hear, smell and taste…all of Scottish Football in these verses. Irvine Welsh on Kilbowie Dreams Truly the stuff from which dreams are made. You can hear, smell and taste…all of Scottish Football in these verses. Irvine Welsh on Kilbowie Dreams A fantastic mix of history, autobiography and biography through the prism of Scottish football: the cold, but redemptive, days on the terraces, the constancy (and hopelessness) of hope, the intricate relationships between football and working class rhythms of life, and – through the story of the poet’s grandfather William Grant – the overlaps between football and war. A lovely celebration of a few strands of the ‘fitba multiverse’. Peter MacKay, Poet, translator, broadcaster and Scotland’s Makar Square Baw is a collection of football poems that not only covers personal experience, but takes a deep dive into the history of the Scottish game itself, and thereby goes to the heart of Scottish masculinity. 'Hamish’s love of the beautiful game shines like a floodlight in this beezer of a collection. He effortlessly combines the punchy, gallus fever of the terraces with this tender, lyrical, homage to football’s past. A master of language, a poet secure in his craft, the Bankies Bard has done it again!' Julie McNeil, Poet, author of We Are Scottish Football and co-editor of A Most Unsuitable Game