Dear Friends,
Pull up a chair, put up your feet, fill your pipe and pop the cork on this book! Pour its inspired effervescence into the chalice of your mind. Drink deep the unbounded, unhinged and untamed spirit of the fantastic bottled within. Stop not till your thirst is good and truly slaked.
Matt Schumacher's exceptionally engaging poetry generates more than enough fabulist energy to power any two metropolises. Read this book and see what we mean. If you are familiar with Matt's poetry, then you already know. Ready yourself for poetry so highly addictive that it really should sport an FDA warning label! This edition of
favorite maritime drinking songs of the miraculous alcoholics includes a splendid new section of poetry and magnificent cover art by legendary SFF artist Bob Eggleton.
As always, when drinking poetry, please enjoy responsibly.
"Miraculous alcoholics cavort and drink great lakes throughout this book of poems. Feral underclasses and beer-soaked musketeers, monsters of the deep and Bacchae frolic in Schumacher's words. The spirit of Rimbaud is mixed with a pour of Nietzsche and a big slosh of Euripides. These are exciting poems, drawing on a cask of knowledge, flavoured with an exhilarating energy. The reader will raise a glass to this collection, which thrills and entertains."
-Dr Penelope Cottier, Australian poet and author
"Revel in this celebration of humanity at its most flamboyant, comitragic, whimsical and miraculous! You'll start reading a line while laughing, be sobbing by the middle and be wiser by the end. Like the narrator you'll never regret the experience, having grown from it. You'll be all at sea one moment, then a giant wave will toss you skyward the next, and then you'll be hurtling down to who knows where! It's one hell of a ride. So all aboard the good ship
favorite maritime drinking songs of the miraculous alcoholics poetry collection!"
-A J Dalton, fantasy novelist and poet
