Goonie

‘Goonie’, the raw and joyful debut collection from award-winning Scottish poet and spoken word artist Michael Mullen, begs the question what is community? What do we owe it and what does it owe us? Whether exploring queerness through fierce lyrical poetry or celebrating Mullen’s beloved Scotland through vernacular vignettes, this book’s main preoccupation is how we form the community around us and how it, in turn, forms us. Many of the themes are encapsulated by the title poem as the narrator readies themselves to take the stage and perform for their older relatives wearing an old goonie (a nightdress).