Zero Hours
Published on 11. December 2020
192 pages
978-1-910324-77-6 (ISBN)
Description
Ceci n'est pas Stonehenge', this is the cosmos,distilled to elemental rock and stone,depicting that interstellar collision,four billion years away, a chaosof realignment unimaginable,when all the worlds we knew or didn't knowosmotically pass through each other like ghosts,to form new galaxies intangible.Written mostly in Scots, Rab Wilson's new collection is a timely comment on our climate of zero hours contracts and benefits sanctions. From social issues to politics, from the sublime to the absurd, Wilson homes in on the unique aspects of life in Scotland and sets out his poetic manifesto for our country's future.Rab Wilson is a widely published Scots poet, and has performed his work to all kinds of audiences throughout Scotland.
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Rab Wilson was born in New Cumnock, Ayrshire, in 1960 and worked in the Ayrshire pits until the end of the Miners' Strike of 1984. He then left the mining industry to train as a psychiatric nurse in 1986. A Scots poet, Rab writes predomi-nantly in Lallans, and his poetry has appeared in some of Scotland's leading poetry magazines, and regularly in The Herald newspaper's daily poetry column. He has performed his work to varied audiences throughout Scotland and has appeared at the Edinburgh Festival, the Robert Burns International Festival, the Burns an a' That Festival and was a featured poet at the Wigtown Book Festival.
Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- General Poems I
- Zero Hours
- In Memory of Tom Carrick
- Richter Scale
- First Bike
- With Andy and Amanda in the Charity Shop
- Salmon Nets and the Sea
- Glasgow Close
- The Spey Wife
- There it is.
- James Hogg Poems
- Auld Lass
- Boy Racers
- The Teapot
- Thir ir the Steps o Glendearg
- Cornua Reparabit Phoebe!
- The Mairriage Stane
- Souch.
- General Poems II
- Cultyir at Killie Odeon
- Double Act
- The Paralytic Games
- Delighted by a Dallop Outside Dereham
- A Spider's Web Glazed with Frost
- Chairm
- Elegy
- Salmon at Euchan Falls
- Burnsiana
- Burns Country
- Portrait of Colin McLuckie
- Negative Sublime II (or Portrait of Lord Byron)
- Blind Ossian
- Sir Walter Scott
- Blue Burns
- Twa Plack
- General Poems III
- Apparatus for Determining the Absolute Om
- Can 'Can'?
- On the Marriage of Dear Carr to his Beloved Girl
- Maggie, Maggie, Maggie
- I The Lanely Daith o Maggie Thatcher
- II Maggie's Funeral
- III Everything Must Go.
- Bank Robbers
- Royal and Ancient
- War Memorial, Afton Valley
- Roads
- Lermontov
- Fareweel Unwasht Russia
- Ma Kintra
- The Dagger
- General Poems IV
- Six Swans a Swimming
- What The Alien Speaks of When he Speaks of Love
- Dirty Des
- Gerry Sells the Jerseys
- Gallus!
- Fourteen Coos
- Lown
- If I could Just Go Back there Once Again.
- IM NHS
- Martin's Moral Compass
- Cuid Hae Duin Better
- A Rhyming Epistle tae Dave Prentis
- NHS Ayrshire's Garland
- Leviathan
- Armistice Day
- Owersettins
- Epilogue
- Ah wis Deid, Syne Leevin
- The Tuim Boat
- The Gowden Boat
- General Poems V
- Desert Island Discs
- At the Church of the Latter Day Empiricists
- God's Telephone Number
- Glenafton 2 Camelon 0
- Heich Simmer
- Eftir the Kistin
- The Auld Toon Schuil
- Here We Go.
- Polquhirter
- Wheel
- The Christmas Bulbs
- Equipoise
- Shards
- General Poems VI
- Paradise Enow!
- 'Seldom Seen'
- Saint Valentine
- Jockeys Destroyed!
- Lang Ling Legammachie
- Skeely Fowk
- The Question
- Rant
- Rant
- The End o the World
- State of the Nation
- Hou the First Tory wis Made
- Promises, Promises.
- Dave's Hair: The Journey Continues.!
- Ode to Lord Winston!
- General Poems VII
- The Waithercock
- Treasuir
- The Stanes Dwam in the Dykes
- Multiverse
- Burnt Sienna and Periwinkle
- Raxin fir the Dawin
- Veesion
- Design
- The Horseman's Word
- The Greater Sea
- Notes to Zero Hours
