Floating the Woods
Published on 15. March 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-912147-33-5 (ISBN)
Description
The collection includes alphabet, calendar, list and found poems, as well as a sequence conceived as a 'variable construction', with one of many possible versions presented here. Many of the poems were written as collaborations with visual artists, and have appeared in booklets and exhibitions, and as public art works. Some were written as commissions, from organisations including The National Trust for Scotland and The Wordsworth Trust, or for occasions such as UNESCO World Heritage Day. Floating the Woods collects these poems at last into a single volume.
Reviews / Votes
plenty wit, and enough sighs ALEC FINLAYList the things that matter, and what is likely to appear are stories, and buildings, the birds that fly between them, the hills and streams and skies that surround them, the ordinary stuff of everyday life lived along side the felt presence of ancient recent history. Ken Cockburn's new collection captures all this... in a gloriously demotic voice that remains deeply immersed in the long traditions of poetry, he paints space, and place; and in his hands, language finds a mouth. JEN WEBB
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
157 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912147-33-5 (9781912147335)
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Person
Ken Cockburn is a poet based in Edinburgh. His first collection Souvenirs and Homelands was shortlisted for a Saltire Award in 1998, and a second collection On the Flyleaf was published by Luath Press in 2007. He was awarded the Arts Foundation Fellowship for Literary Translation 2008, and has twice re-ceived commendations in The Stephen Spender Poetry Prize.
Formerly Fieldworker and Assistant Director at the Scottish Poetry Li-brary, he has run countless poetry sessions for children and adults in-doors and outdoors, in schools, libraries, museums, care homes and gar-dens. He also runs Edinburgh Poetry Tours, presenting guided walks with poems in Edinburgh's Old Town.
Formerly Fieldworker and Assistant Director at the Scottish Poetry Li-brary, he has run countless poetry sessions for children and adults in-doors and outdoors, in schools, libraries, museums, care homes and gar-dens. He also runs Edinburgh Poetry Tours, presenting guided walks with poems in Edinburgh's Old Town.