POEMS, SONGS, TALES.
Chris MacMillan’s Poems from a Scottish Armchair is an evocative and deeply personal collection of poetry that spans a range of emotions, themes, and experiences. The poems transport the reader through time, memory, and place, often evoking a sense of nostalgia, longing, and introspection. The collection's strength lies in its ability to weave together historical reflection, personal struggle, and universal human experiences.
Book two of the collection, Songs from a Scottish Armchair, spans Chris’s time writing lyrics for and with the rock band Brora Wolf and includes songs performed by the band in various venues around central Scotland. Chris happily confirms that he is not a singer, so many of these lyrics could be considered "free-form poems." Once again, his words can take you on a journey through his own self-reflection as he battles his insecurities; if you let it, he can take you to different worlds and times.
Finally, in the third book of the collection, Tales from a Scottish Armchair, Chris brings together a collection of twenty adventure flash stories and short stories. He has been working on a novel, Brora Wolf – The Awakening, for many years, and as he’s been writing, characters and ideas have popped into being; this is their tales and legends.
Chris MacMillan
Chris is fifty-two as he puts this together during the Christmas break and in January of 2025. He will be fifty-three in February and lives in Airdrie, central Scotland, partway between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
If someone asked him who he is, he would say he’s a husband to Kate (there is a poem about her), a father of two, a grandfather of four, a son, a brother, a terrible friend, and an Army brat. His father served with the British Army until Chris was fourteen years old, and he enjoyed his life following his dad and the Scottish battalion he served in. He describes himself as a terrible friend because his time as an Army brat taught him to be self-reliant, and he moves on quickly from the things he sees as ending. The fact that he’s been married for over 30 years still surprises him.
He follows his hometown football team, Airdrieonians, and fell in love with American football in the early '80s when he discovered it again on Channel Four one late Friday night. He says ‘again’ because he remembers talking about it with American students whose parents had been posted to West Germany as it was then. The Chicago Bears team of 1984 had him hooked.
In terms of education, he says he never did enough. He always thought he would join the armed forces and hoped to join the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (R.E.M.E.), but that wasn’t meant to be. He completed two years at college studying multi-disciplinary engineering and has worked in various engineering roles, the latest being a Quality Control Analyst. The news that he is to be made redundant in early 2025 prompted him to start working on his doodling, and this is the result.
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