View from the Bench: My Life in Poetry - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 190767604X ISBN 13 : 9781907676048

Editeur : Grace Note Publications, 2011

Synopsis

View from the Bench celebrates the Life in Poetry of Lillias Scott Forbes, a nonagenarian poet, daughter of the composer Francis George Scott. Her poems in Scots and English goes back to 1936 and her last poem date August 2011, representing a cross-section of her 75 years of poetry writing. 'As a result of her father's friendships, she mixed with acclaimed poets from an early age and was encouraged by them in her own writing - W.S. Graham, Hugh MacDiarmid, Dylan Thomas and, Willa and Edwin Muirs, to mention only a few. Her poetry described her life in Britain, France, South Africa and specially her feelings for Scotland. It is clearly an autobiographic poetry book. And as fellow poet Eleanor Livingstone, said " - the passing of years and of those earlier generations obviously hasn't dimmed Lillias Scott Forbes' passion for poetry and she expresses herself delighted that her muse hasn't fled entirely 'at her advanced age'."

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Lillias Magdalene Scott, daughter of composer Francis George Scott and singer Burges Gray, was born in Glasgow in 1918. Growing up in a musical family she was also encouraged by her father's literary friends, including W.S. Graham, Willa and Edwin Muir, Hugh MacDiarmid and Dylan Thomas. In 1963 she married Scottish composer Eric Chisholm, then Professor of Music in Cape Town, who set some of her poems to music, including 'Fragment', 'Johnnie Logie', 'Love's Reward', 'Prayer', 'Skreigh o' Day', which were published in the pamphlet Poems of Love. When Eric died in 1965, Lillias returned to Scotland and settled in Fife. She ran an art gallery in Falkland where she met her second husband, John Forbes (orchestral woodwind specialist). After John's death she moved to St. Andrews where she continued to write poetry, some of which has been published in the following pamphlets: Poems of Love (MacDonald); Turning a Fresh Eye (Akros); A Hesitant Opening of Parasols (Calderwood Press) and in magazines and anthologies: Markings Publications; Accents of Fife; Modern Scottish Women Poets (Canongate Classics); University of St Andrews Open Association; The Herald; The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry (Edinburgh University Press) Craigarter Press; Fife Lines (Fife Council); The Fife Anthology (Birlinn). As Prof. Alan Riach said, "Lillias Scott Forbes is a nonagenarian whose memory is magnificently stocked with perceptive accounts of a generation almost lost to our contemporaries..."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Grace Note Publications
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 190767604X
• ISBN 13: 9781907676048
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible