- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press (30 Jun 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 074862015X
- ISBN-13: 978-0748620159
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16.4 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 976,589 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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I cannot imagine any reader who will not find seomthing to treasure in this anthology. Its selection principles are generous and expansive! it provides a welcome counterbalance in its promotion of female writers, as well as the occasional dip into more 'popular' forms. A pleasing, pleasure-filled book, with lots of surprises. -- Professor Alan Riach Editors Maurice Lindsay and Lesley Duncan have provided a concise and lively introduction to The Edinburgh Book of Twentieth Century Scottish Poetry, giving an informative historical context for non-Scottish readers. A surprisingly diverse compilation. I cannot imagine any reader who will not find seomthing to treasure in this anthology. Its selection principles are generous and expansive! it provides a welcome counterbalance in its promotion of female writers, as well as the occasional dip into more 'popular' forms. A pleasing, pleasure-filled book, with lots of surprises.
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Selected for the pleasure and interest they offer these 400 or so poems from more than 150 poets span the entire century. While the major figures - MacDiarmid pre-eminently, and others such as Norman MacCaig, Iain Crichton Smith, and George Mackay Brown - are generously represented, there are many other voices, from the master balladeer of the Yukon, Robert Service, to the internationally-known psychiatrist R D Laing, the distinguished economist Sir Alec Cairncross, and the troubled but deeply eloquent Rayne Mackinnon. Women are given due prominence. Readers unfamiliar with Helen Adam will experience a frisson at the sexual tensions of her ballad-poems while Naomi Mitchison reveals her intimate self. The admirable Marion Angus, Violet Jacob, and Helen B Cruickshank show their talents, while contemporary poets Liz Lochhead, Carol Ann Duffy, Janet Paisley, Jackie Kay, and many others, are well represented. In a century of unprecedented change, the poems also act as a commentary on their times - and Scotland's war poets such as Charles Hamilton Sorley and Hamish Henderson, with their anger and eloquence, are included. With its lively engagement with the real world as well as the world of private creativity, this anthology will contribute to an ongoing sense of Scottish cultural identity. Key Features * Includes more than 400 poems (compared to the 300 in the Faber volume) * Represents more than 150 poets (compared to the 70 or so in the Faber volume) * EUP's anthology spans the entire C20th century (while the Faber volume was published in the early 1990s) * The EUP volume includes more women poets than the Faber volume * The EUP volume is alphabetically arranged for ease of use (compared to the chronological arrangement of the Faber volume) * The EUP anthology includes biographjcal notes on each of the poets (which the Faber volume does not have)
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9 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a big disappointment coming from a univerity press, as opposed to a commercial publisher. The emphasis is on the tartan, Little Scotland idea of verse - what else could explain there being twice as much of the greetings card poet Kenneth Steven than Don Paterson, the big name in recent Scottish poetry. Fascinating figures such as Gael Turnbull and Burns Singer are all but shunned in favour of couthy worthies.
Tessa Ransford receives more attention than Garioch and WS Graham! And fans of Liz Lochhead will find her well represented, not least by half a dozen talent-free copycats. The generation of writers from the 60s to the 80s are reduced to a few grudging inclusions, while just about anyone who can hold a biro who currently lives in Scotland is given a few pages, diminishing the unlikely fact there were, by chance, ten or so poets who came to fruition in the late 80s and 90s who were world class.
The period before 1950 is well (if thinly) represented, though one wonders what is being missed out in order to cadge a few paltry sales by adding stuff which is clearly not poetry - 60s 'folk' song lyrics, cheap jokes and cabaret songs. The Scottish poetic century - a very good and productive one - is ill-served by this cheap trick.
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On the other hand how refreshing to see a wide ranging selection of lively poems from outside the ranks of those few poets in Scotland we are continually instructed to admire by those arbitrers of taste and fashion, who, when it comes down to it, are not any more equipped than anyone else to decide what constitutes art or entertainment.
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