ConsumptionPaperback, 7 February 2020

Consumption. n. 1. The action or process of consuming. 2. An amount consumed. 3. dated Tuberculosis. 4. A book of selected pamphlets published by Controlled Explosion Press, Roncadora Press and Urban Free Press between 2008 and 2019, none of the poems from which have appeared before in a full-length collection. Poems about love and war, orange trains and pink-haired punks, mushroom clouds and carbon footprints. Poems about travelling in man-made circles, swallowing ourselves as we go. Graham Fulton is a Scottish poet, publisher, pamphleteer, live performer, artist, photographer and local historian. His books and pamphlets have been produced by many publishers including Smokestack Books, Red Squirrel Press, Pindrop Press, Roncadora Press, Clochoderick Press, Penniless Press, Mariscat Press, Rebel Inc, Freight Books, Salmon Poetry, The Grimsay Press and Polygon. His work has been translated. He lives in the town of Paisley.