Stand-up poet, comedian and walking shortbread tin Elvis McGonagall
returns with "Complete & Utter Cult " the follow-up to 2017's "Viva
Loch Lomond ". This new collection of satirical verse captures Elvis'
ongoing futile exasperation at the dismal trajectory of our posttruth
world as it trundles along the primrose path to Beelzebub's
bottomless pit. Fake news and COVID-19. Organic novichok and Piers
Morgan. Yes, the good ship lollipop is sailing down the shitter. Climb
aboard with Elvis as he bellows into the void of our diseased, burning
planet and we all drift towards a giant melting iceberg. "Complete
and Utter Cult " tackles everything from the pernicious effects of the
patriarchy to disappearing rainforests via Brexit milkshakes and a
pandemic. Yes, all the feel-good hits are here, fully annotated with
the innermost thoughts from the canyons of Elvis' mind as he banged
away on his typewriter at The Graceland Caravan Park. And there's a
love poem.
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