Sick Note & Scrapbook combines the poems of the 1995 short pamphlet Sick Note and the 1998 short pamphlet Scrapbook by Exeter poet and novelist Andy Botterill, when the author was working as a local news reporter in the South West of England. The poems of Sick Note are more personal and have themes of love, loss, longing, heartache and break-up, whilst the themes explored in Scrapbook are more general and centre on social realism. Many appeared in their original format in the small presses of both the UK and America at the time of writing, and all the poems have been updated with revisions and additions for this new collection, which continues the gradual reissue of all Andy Botterill's published poetry. His style has been described as confessional and in the American Beat tradition. He considers his work to be from the perspective of the outsider, loner or casual observer.