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Published on 10. October 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-1-84697-512-7 (ISBN)
Description
Almost eighteen years in the making, this collection is a love poem to a rural community in Scotland. The freshness of its language brings the daily grind, its joys and harsh realities, to vivid life; its final elegies form a moving testament to a lost generation of family, friends, farmers and farms.
Reviews / Votes
'Carruth's poetry is important to Scotland' -- Douglas Dunn 'It is a quiet, beautiful collection, poems punctuated by the names of fields, of grasses, and of disused dairy farms. I trust every word' -- Gillian ClarkeMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Birlinn General
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 194 mm
Width: 125 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
24 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84697-512-7 (9781846975127)
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Person
Jim Carruth was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, and grew up on his family's farm near Kilbarchan. He has won both the James McCash poetry competition and the McLellan Poetry Prize and was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2009. He was chosen as one of the poets showcased in Oxford Poets 2010. In 2014 he was appointed Poet Laureate of Glasgow. He is the author of Killochries (2018) and Bale Fire (2019), both published by Polygon.