THE WINEGUM COLLECTION (2019)

Four separate volumes collecting articles from the ‘Winegum Telegram’ blog as penned by Johnny ‘Petunia Winegum’ Monroe between 2015 and 2019.

A regular online essayist for more than five years, Johnny Monroe in his alter-ego guise of ‘Petunia Winegum’ has managed to provoke thought, debate and discussion by documenting events of the day with a satirical, critical eye and the odd side-splitting turn of phrase. His good fortune is to be writing in an era stripped of certainties, a turbulent, Stygian interregnum in which no waspish wordsmith worth his salt can bemoan the absence of inspiration or dearth of source material.

From the combative cockpit of cyberspace to the printed page, this quartet of compilations of the ‘Winegum Telegram’ cover everything from the political to the pop cultural whilst refusing to recognise either side of the divide as exclusive copyright-holders of the moral high-ground. Outside the tent pissing-in, Monroe’s detached perspective allows for a clearer picture of the most unpredictable (and occasionally mind-boggling) period in living memory than can be found on Fleet Street.

Subjective and emotive, this collection is an invigorating excursion into the wider world’s impact on one individual’s increasingly exasperated perception of it…