The original Archie McBrain is an author, poet and philosopher, residing in Blairgowrie, Scotland.
"As a diversion from the frustration of slogging away at my first brilliant blockbuster novel... which has been twenty five years in the making, I wrote, at my wife's suggestion, this first book of my poems. Poems aren't serious, the ones I write are supposed to be humorous... funny even and wherever possible divertingly philosophical. Possibly their most endearing trait is that they are old fashioned enough to actually rhyme and scan."