Random Excess is a collection of writing, the title riffing on the computer language of random access memory - RAM. The poems and other pieces are not theme linked but wander through a range of matters touching on memories, family, the past, places, random others, troubles and occasional nonsense. “I have eclectic interests and these pieces reflect my scattered attentions that look at the world otherwise while being as human(e) as possible with a thoughtful eye.” Perhaps a gathering of misfits is a better description of these poems. Random Excess is the third collection of Daniel G Scott’s poetry published by Ekstasis.

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Daniel G Scott is the current (5th) Artistic Director of the Planet Earth Poetry Reading Series. He has written in a variety of forms but poetry is his long-standing love. He has previously published gnarled love and terrains (with Ekstasis Editions), and black onion and two chapbooks: street signs and Interrupted (with Goldfinch Press). He has individual poems in anthologies and chapbooks as well as numerous academic publications including journal articles and book chapters and, with Shannon McFerran, The Girls Diary Project (University of Victoria, 2013). He won a one-act playwriting competition in New Brunswick in 1984. He is an Associate Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria, School of Child and Youth Care, father and grandfather.