Fugitives - Couverture souple

Campbell, Donald

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1907676724 ISBN 13 : 9781907676727

Editeur : Grace Note Publications, 2015

Synopsis

The poems in Fugitives fall into three categories: new poems, previously uncollected poems, and translations. Most of them have appeared at one time or another in magazines and newspapers.

“He writes a robust and finely tuned poetry, apoetry that is empathetic to the casual peoplethat our confused society throws up”Robert Garioch,Lines Review

“Campbell’s resourceful craftsmanship andhis ear for the authentic allow him to rangeconfi dently over a wide variety of forms andsubjects.”James AitchisonScotland on Sunday

“I find many of Campbell’s poems very pure,with a piercing sense of the ‘lacrimae rerum’ ofwhich Vergil wrote. It is unusual nowadays tofind such purity of tone.”Iain Crichton SmithThe Scotsman

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Donald Campbell

Born in Caithness in 1940, Donald Campbell grew up in Edinburgh where he still lives. A full-time writer since 1974, he is active as playwright, theatre historian, stage director, script writer and poet. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Association of Scottish Literary Studies and a Life Member of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain.

Among more than a score of stage-plays, the most successful have been The Jesuit (1976), The Widows of Clyth (1979), Blackfriars Wynd (1980), Till All the Seas Run Dry (1981), Howard’s Revenge (1985), VictorianValues (1986), The Fisher Boy and the Honest Lass (1990), The Ould Fella (1993) Nancy Sleekit (1994) and Glorious Hearts (1999).

As a poet, Campbell has published a substantial body of work, six full collections being represented in his Selected Poems: 1970-1990 (Galliard, 1990). Other work includes six television plays, some fifty radio programmes, three short films and two volumes of theatre history; A Brighter Sunshine (polygon, 1983) and Playing for Scotland (Mercat Press, 1996) together with his cultural history of Edinburgh, published in the Cities of the Imagination series from Signal Books of Oxford (2001).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Grace Note Publications
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1907676724
• ISBN 13: 9781907676727
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 136
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