The Armageddon Sonnets. These poems are gutsy, gentle, ugly and quaint. The poet's voice is a mixture of feeling, detachment, love, anger, close observation, humour and the prophetic. The themes are, the failed experiment of human independence from God and its consequences, a woman lost at sea, the nightmarish journey of life's broken road, the ugliness of men, the beauty of a woman, extending a hand to orphaned words, nature singing to its Maker and not least Hope. John Charles McKay writes in English, Scots and occasionally no language at all. When something elemental is lost the elements...