Glenn Telfer: 7 books

A free selection of poems exploring Scotland's saint, Saint Columba, and his life on the island of Iona in Scotland over 1000 years ago. The inspiration is pious, but the sensibility is modern and slightly irreverent. Hopeful that this interpretation brings a better understanding of our saints. We need them more than ever.

A free ebook selection from the author's previous seven books.A Scottish mid-century sensibility is brought to the usual suspects; life and love, the past, education, war, being young and getting older.The author hopes that a lightness of spirit and sense of fun is to be found in the oftentimes sombre topics presented.

Poems about war and its place in our mind and our soul.The last century has witnessed killing on an industrial scale. Too many got the wrong ticket home from their foreign trip. Is this the price of glory, is it worth it? You can ask the question, but who has the right to judge the answer.The...

A collection of poems inspired by a Scottish education in the ‘60’s.1982: Time, Gentlemen, please. There will be no more belting of children. From now on they will be belting us!The Glasgow poet considers the belting days. And in particular the connection between academic improvement...

Prelude to Gotterdammerung; we are now entering the golden age of madness;Considering the gathering storm and wondering who will deliver us from it, gods and heroes being posted missing again.Everyone comes to feel that they are living through the end of days; eventually, though, it will be true....

Poems inspired by Saint Columba’s on-going mission to Scotland.A light-hearted, but erudite and faithful collection of poems exploring Scotland’s Christian heritage through the life of its most famous saint, Saint Columba. Other saints, Ninian and Mungo, turn up too as the collection moves...

Written in bile, a cautionary tale powered by the heat of burned love letters, featuring hypocrisy on the usual scale.Inside the shell ancestral genes stir. The mind becomes dirty with greed in all its feline varieties. Men are led like helium balloons on a string to their fate. As guilt unfolds,...