Accent O the Mind - Couverture souple

Wilson, Rab

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1905222327 ISBN 13 : 9781905222322

Editeur : Luath Press Ltd, 2006

Synopsis

Rab Wilson covers the variety of modern Scottish life through refreshingly honest and often humorous poetry, encompassing history, text messaging, politics, asylum-seeking hedgehogs and connoisseurs of Buckfast. Individual poems, whether set in the local supermarket or the former mining towns of his youth, have humour, pathos, sometimes indignation and always a warm immediacy. Rab Wilson is a free spirit who speaks and writes in Scots (in everyday letters and emails as well as poetry) with complete ease and unselfconsciousness. This inspirational collection reaffirms Rab Wilsons position as one of Scotlands leading poets and plays a part in the reinvigoration of the Scots language in modern Scottish society.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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 predominantly 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 recently a featured poet at the Wigtown Book Festival. Rab was one of the recipients of the 2003 McCash Poetry Prize and is currently a member of the Scots Language Society’s National Committee. He now lives in the town of Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire with his wife Margaret and daughter Rachel.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Luath Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1905222327
• ISBN 13: 9781905222322
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible