Never Mind the Captions
An Off-Beat Guide to Scotland's History and Heritage
Published on 1. October 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-906817-89-3 (ISBN)
Description
Join Alistair Findlay on an off-beat tour of Scotland, from museum artefacts to public pieces of art, where he captures the humorous, passionate, and sometimes biting voices of some of our national treasures.
Reviews / Votes
Alistair Findlay has not only articulated the silent unspokenquestions which people ask of museum pieces and cultural icons, he lets the objects answer back, to the delight and entertainment of the reader. -
Dr Elspeth King, Director, Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-A)
Dimensions
Height: 160 mm
Width: 110 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
151 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-906817-89-3 (9781906817893)
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Person
Alistair Findlay worked for over thirty years as a social worker in communities across the UK, and also has a Masters Degree in Modern Poetry in English from Stirling University. In August 2007 Alistair was awarded a Writer's Bursary by the Scottish Arts Council to produce this book, which is his third collection of poems on social workers, and also to edit an anthology of Scottish Marxist poetry - Lenin's Gramaphone. As well as his poetry, Alistair Findlay is the author of Shale Voices, a creative memoir of the shale oil communities of West Lothian.