Poetry
A Field of Chilli Peppers
A Field of Chilli Peppers is Stuart A. McIntosh's ninth collection of poetry. Stuart has been writing poetry for four decades. This new collection gathers previously unpublished poems on a variety of themes.
Those familiar with Stuart's work will recognise poignancy, passion, puns, his love of alliteration, word play and (attempts) at humour.
Paperback edition, 128 pages, published 2025 by Blindeye Publications. ISBN: 9798287712792ASIN: B0FD9ZDVYY. Also available as Kindle edition
Plodding On Rewardless:
An Autobiographical Anthology
Plodding On Rewardless pulls together autobiographical poems of Stuart A. McIntosh’s sixty-year life (so far!) from his previous eight collections of poetry.
Stuart wrote his first poem in 1981, by the following year he had composed enough for his first collection to be published. Forty years later and seven more publications has produced nearly 500 poems.
This selected anthology gathers over 140 of those that denote personal landmarks including coming to terms with the loss of loved ones, school life, love of sport, employment, places visited, marriage and parenthood.
Poignant, passionate, punny, plays on words, using different types of poetical constructs help to guide the reader through a life well lived."
Paperback edition published by Blindeye Publications, 218 pages. Also available as a Kindle edition. ISBN: 9798361653577, ASIN: B0BL54CKMW
All Together Now: A Sporting Anthology
"This anthology was forty years in the making. It brings together thirty-seven sport themed poems from eight of Stuart McIntosh's previous books and provides fifteen previously unpublished poems. All Together Now takes us on the journey of Stuart's life marking his interests in cricket, golf, snooker and football and his ongoing love affair with Everton Football Club, which is comprehensively explained in Stuart's revealing foreword and illustrated with personal family photographs."
Format 89 pages, Paperback Published November 11, 2022 by Blindeye Publications ISBN 9798363201394ASINB0BM6DJBCP
Also available in Kindle Edition
The Immortality Of Crabs
"The Immortality Of Crabs is Stuart's eighth collection of poetry and is his largest to date with all poems having been written in 2022, a year that sees Stuart's sixtieth birthday and marks the fortieth anniversary of the publication of his first collection, The Well, The Key & The Pen"
Paperback, 133 pages, ISBN 9798354957729, ASIN B0BHL33HQ5 published by Blindeye Publications. Also as a Kindle edition
Thinking Of Blue Almonds
"Thinking of Blue Almonds by Stuart A. McIntosh, his seventh book, published by Blindeye Publications in 2022. Never one to shy away from a pun or a play on words and a keen fan of rhyme, Stuart covers a range of topics in this collection from pure humour, historical events, illness, social commentary, and general observations. All much in keeping with his previous published works."
Paperback edition 98 pages, ISBN 9798784514974, ASIN B09PMCDBR1, Kindle edition available
Fellow Authors' Perspectives
"'In Yer Face, Adversity' is Stuart’s sixth collection of poems composed over two decades from 1980-2000. It also contains a small selection of works that previously appeared in a 2001 anthology My Travels With Professor Higgins By A Lazy Doolittle, which is currently out of print. The pen and poetic thoughts were not put out of reach and this collection gathered together new poems written in the two decades up to the infamous Coronavirus pandemic and published by Blindeye Publications."
Paperback edition 89 pages, ISBN 9798642751497, ASIN B087SLMT7C, Kindle edition also available
Off The Top Of My Head
"Of The Top Of My Head is Stuart A. McIntosh's fifth collection of poems that were largely written during the troublesome year, 2020. It was published in 2021, forty years after he wrote his first poem to be published."
Paperback 104 pages, ISBN 9798589480689, ASIN B08VLM1QNM, Kindle edition available
Nothing To Fear
"Nothing To Fear is Stuart’s fourth collection of poems that he wrote between 1997 and the book’s first publication in 2000. In a similar vein to his earlier collections, Stuart writes about a variety of observations of life, love and death, and of historical/mythical figures of inspiration or interest. This latest edition was re-printed in 2020."
Paperback 69 pages, ISBN 9798638340094, ASIN B087RC7P3S, also available as Kindle edition
One Arabian Night
"One Arabian Night is Stuart’s third collection of poems following on from The Well, The Key & The Pen and View Other Side. In the decade that had past between the publishing of the first two book and this latest one in 1997 life, work, marriage and children had shaped Stuart’s writing but his observations, word play, love of a good (or bad) pun and humour continue. This latest edition was re-printed in 2020."
Paperback, 65 pages, ISBN 9798638337384, ASIN B087L31F31, Kindle edition also available
View Other Side
"Following the positive reception of his first collection of poems, The Well, The Key & The Pen, Stuart was encouraged to produce a second, slim collection of additional works. Predominately written in 1987 with a couple of earlier, previously unpublished poems, this second collection, View Other Side was first printed in 1987. The themes reflect Stuart’s observations of life at that time often with his customary humour and acerbic wit. This latest edition printed in 2020 sees a couple of reworkings but, by and large, it remains the musings of a man in his mid-twenties in the mid-eighties."
Paperback - ISBN 9798638074685, ASIN - B0875Z4JXH
Paperback 43 pages, also available Kindle edition
The Well, The Key & The Pen
"The Well, The Key & The Pen is the collection of poems written by Stuart A. McIntosh between 1981 and 1987, tackling themes of growing up, adolescence angst, early dalliances into romance, historical fact and fable often using word play, puns and humour. It was initially printed in 1983 and contained 37 poems. It was revised in 1987 and expanded to 75 poems. This latest edition printed in 2020 has seen the poet revisit the collection and, where he felt necessary, Stuart has “tweaked, tinkered with and… reworked” some. They are still true to the thoughts of a young man witnessing and experiencing life from his late teen years to his mid-twenties, albeit now presented by a man considerably older, if not wiser."
Paperback 105 pages, also available Kindle edition 98 pages
Paperback - ISBN 9798638048181, ASIN B0875XQQ27