An Unfinished Dance - Published by Rymour Books of Perth (2022)

https://www.rymour.co.uk/unfinished.html

'an unfinished dance' is a book length poem which deals with history, personal journey and what it means to be a human being living in Scotland in the 2020s. Part stream of consciousness, part poetic reverie it is an incantatory, biographical voyage through mind and place. The book was launched at Lynch's Bar in Glasgow on Sunday 6th March 2022 during a lively afternoon of poetry, music and song. It is "a long poem in 4 parts

on politics, literature, life: with Notes:

Part 1. A Sun God Awake at the Wheel

Part 2. No Profit in Prophets?

Part 3. There is Music in Romanticism

Part 4. As Freely as you Love

"Genuinely experimental, Jim Ferguson forces us to see the world differently—like ‘a thought/that accidently/lands in your/head.’ The constantly changing language feeds eerie imaginings in various tongues (reflected in the use of various fonts): English, Glaswegian, Scots, and French. It is darkly comic, a manual for the dead written during the covid pandemic, it offers more than a hint of contained fury and anxiety, of empathy without sentimentality. A remarkable tale told by a voice that’s utterly compelling and which you read with the feeling that you’re being led inside the murkiest of minds. No one is in control of these irresistible and disturbing musings." Ruby McCann