Rafferty's Rules: A Poetry Collection

Rafferty, Frank

ISBN 10: 1738429369 / ISBN 13: 9781738429363

Published by Salamander Street Ltd., 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rafferty's Rules: A Poetry Collection
• Publisher: Salamander Street Ltd.
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1738429369
• ISBN 13: 9781738429363
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Johnson, Rachael
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Glaswegian-born, Derry-based performance poet Frank Rafferty has shared his spoken word and poetry on stages around the world. His debut collection, Rafferty’s Rules, includes his comic musings coupled with political calls to action captured with his unique style of energy and lyricism.

This volume includes crowd-favourites My Granny Made Me An Anarchist and This Iz Thi Voys.

Rafferty's Rules
/raf:uh:tees ruːls/
slang c. 1910
The phrase, a play on the Irish surname Rafferty, is a way to say you aren't playing by any rules at all.

Cover illustration by Rachael Johnson.

Contents

Absent
Notes From The Asylum
Past Lives
I Stopped
Mickey’s Monkey
Your Health
Elephant
Araphel
Templemore
Men Who Can’t Stop Marching
Snake
Mmajin
My Granny Made Me An Anarchist
Jazz
Service 64
Being A Tree
Do Not Belong To Others
This Iz Thi Voys
Nae Pasaran Ya Bass
A Random Selection from 100 things that
keep me awake at night
When I Die
Remainder
Lastwurds