- Paperback: 124 pages
- Publisher: Kennedy And Boyd (1 Mar 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1849210071
- ISBN-13: 978-1849210072
- Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 572,308 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An Altitude Within is Alan MacGillivray's fourth poetry publication. It brings together most of the poems of his previous pamphlets, Kindly Clouds and The Bountiful Loch, together with his more recent unpublished work. The collection reveals a poet whose approach is eclectic and adventurous in subjects and forms, ranging widely, and frequently humorously, through history and the contemporary world, moving out from his home territory of Scotland with its current concerns of individuality and identity to survey the wider world in its cultural variety and environmental fragility. Alan MacGillivray is of Highland parentage but was brought up in Dumfries in the Scottish Borders. He taught English in schools from the South-West of Scotland to Shetland, and lectured for fifteen years at Jordanhill College of Education in Glasgow. Thereafter he lectured in Scottish Literature at the University of Strathclyde. He has written and edited books and articles on Scottish literary subjects. His previous poetry publications are Kindly Clouds (2005), The Bountiful Loch (2007) and the saga of fnc gull (2009), which was included in Best Scottish Poems 2009 by the Scottish Poetry Library. He lives just outside Glasgow.
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This is the first major collection from one of Scotland's leading poets, and judging by its contents he is at the height of his powers. Taking an eagle's eye view of a huge variety of subjects, such as the Scottish legend of the selkie (a seal who changes into a lovely women), family history (a father lost during the war), politicians and their promises and the Chinese New Year in Glasgow, MacGillivray skewers each with precise observation and language that can be beautiful or deadly, or both at once, and a viewpoint that is often wryly funny. You should get hold of this book because of the new views it gives you, of everything from the tiniest detail of a garden or a person to a philosophical concept. An inner altitude indeed.
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