Stabs and Fences, and Later Poems - Couverture souple

Manson, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1849210756 ISBN 13 : 9781849210751

Editeur : Kennedy And Boyd, 2012

Synopsis

This personal selection spans the poet's life and lived experience, drawing together poems previously published in a range of small-press publications and a section of hitherto uncollected poems. 'John Manson is a poet of rare integrity and distinction. This is a deeply impressive collection of lean, durable poems as firm in their positioning and place as the necessary stabs and fences required on croft or smallholding. When so much of the world is given over to the venality of celebrity-culture with all its superficiality and distractions, work of this kind is apt to be undervalued or overlooked entirely. Here there is a gathering of decades, spanning a writing life over more than half a century and crossing the whole stretch of Scotland.', Alan Riach in his Introduction to the volume.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Manson was born in 1932 in Caithness where his parents were crofters. In his early twenties his mother and he moved to a croft in Sutherland, the county from which his great-grandmother had been cleared. He has also lived in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, Motherwell, Roxburghshire, Cumbria, Edinburgh, Fife, and for 37 years in Galloway. John's working life has been spent in crofting, reading/writing and teaching. Since early retirement he has focussed on research on Scottish authors of the 1930s, mainly Hugh MacDiarmid, Lewis Grassic Gibbon and James Barke, as well as on translation of prose and poetry into English and of poetry into Scots. His publications include co-editorship with David Craig of the first Penguin paperback edition of Hugh MacDiarmid: Selected Poems (1970); co-editorship of The Revolutionary Art of the Future: Rediscovered Poems by Hugh MacDiarmid, with Dorian Grieve and Alan Riach (Carcanet Press, 2003). And he selected and edited Dear Grieve: Letters to Hugh MacDiarmid (Kennedy and Boyd, 2011).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Kennedy And Boyd
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1849210756
• ISBN 13: 9781849210751
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 132
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible