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by Mick Imlah (Author)
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  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (1 May 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 057124307X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571243075
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,586 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'No poet in Scotland now can take as his inspiration the folk impulse that created the ballads, the people's songs, the legends of Mary Stuart and Prince Charlie,' proposed Edwin Muir. Yet many of the poems in Mick Imlah's new collection do take the most over-worn of Scottish myths as their apparent starting points, spanning the Wallace and the Bruce; the Bonnie Prince (pivotal "Lost Leader" of the title), Robert Burns and Walter Scott; whisky, Clydeside and football. Imlah's approach to this folklore is brilliantly fresh, a modern, sardonic but strongly-felt rendering of Scotland: from AD 500, by way of a guided tour of Iona, to yesterday at a Dumfries bus depot. And, as the chronicle reaches the twentieth century, the poems turn to friends and family - childhood reminiscences, elegies and celebrations - influenced still by sporting and military fantasy, the charm of history and the power of anachronism.

About the Author
Mick Imlah was born in 1956 and brought up near Glasgow and in Kent. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he subsequently taught as a Junior Fellow. He was editor of Poetry Review from 1983 to 1986, and has worked at the Times Literary Supplement since 1992. His poems have appeared in The Zoologist's Bath (1982), Birthmarks (1988), Penguin New Poets 3 (1994) and Diehard (2006). He has edited The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse (with Robert Crawford, 2000) and made selections for Faber of the poems of Tennyson and Edwin Muir. He lives in North London with his partner and two daughters.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sadly...The Lost Poet, 23 Feb 2009
By J. D. C. Campbell "JDCC" (Ayr, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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An excellent collection from the now sadly demised master poet. Quirky, thoughtful and with an edge of vulnerability at times... his poems steeped with reference to his personal, literary, and Scottish heritage.

One to be read regularly.
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