As I sit quietly, I begin to smell burning is a wild mixture of poetry and prose poetry, in the spirit of verging on discovering catastrophe. It displays McGuire's tendency toward the confessional, the social-realistic and the absurd. McGuire has a voice that is frank and direct. He writes about childhood, private life, and what constitutes 'Scottishness', as well as confronting issues of perversion, identity, masculinity and addiction.

 

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