Chas Stramash

Punk poet.

Chas Stramash has been a poet since 2000.

He started off writing poetry about lava lamps, cows, grass and such like. He now writes poems about places, people, events, observations, countries, politics, culture, coffee… in fact, anything is pretty much within scope these days.

His poems are influenced by John Cooper Clarke, Spike Milligan, Luke Wright, Salena Godden, Byron Vincent, and Rick Lupert.

Much of his poetry is observational, often humorous and very often satirical. His work has occasionally been compared with Spike Milligan’s, but he would never entertain the notion himself.

He has written one book of poetry for kids, which he has travelled the country with while giving readings for the wee people of Scotland.

He has published five books of poetry for adults. All were published by Smashing Press from Leith.

Chas enjoys walking, coffee, eating cheese, drinking wine, Cyprus, reading, rabbit taming, making curries and music.

He is an accomplished fake faller.

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