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'A timely and well-researched collection of poems which contains (as good anthologies should do) a number of surprises for most readers.' Edwin Morgan 'This celebration and personification through its poetry of Scottish nationhood and identity is as exhilarating and revelatory for its freshness, vision and diversity as it is indisputably hard-headed and erudite.' Stewart Conn, Edinburgh's Makar 'It is a pleasure to meet in this book many friendly, well-known poems introducing us to so many wise and/or comic and/or tuneful but always interesting strangers, some ancient, some modern.' Alasdair Gray
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'Scotlands: Poets and the Nation' brings alive the unfolding story of Scottish national identity through its poetry. It opens with the anonymous Celtic poet who wrote of 'Scotland with its wonders'; it concludes with Iain Crichton Smith's secular prayer for a country that is 'fresh and glittering and contemporary' as it moves into a new era. The anthology contains patriotism and satire, moving laments and joke-poems, well-loved treasures of Scottish poetry and the less familiar voices of common men and women through the ages. All the major Scottish poets are represented, as well as Gaelic-language poets in the original language and in translation; poets looking at Scotland from an outsider's perspective, from Shakespeare to Les Murray; and the strong Scottish tradition of women's poetry. From Robert Burns to Kokumo Rocks, from Lady Nairne to Jackie Kay, the collection celebrates the enduring strengths of Scottish identity and imagination. The book contains a comprehensive introduction by Douglas Gifford, Chair of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University and Honorary Librarian of Walter Scott's library, and Alan Riach, Head of the Department of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University and himself a poet.
'A timely and well-researched collection of poems which contains (as good anthologies should do) a number of surprises for most readers.' Edwin Morgan 'This celebration and personification through its poetry of Scottish nationhood and identity is as exhilarating and revelatory for its freshness, vision and diversity as it is indisputably hard-headed and erudite.' Stewart Conn, Edinburgh's Makar 'It is a pleasure to meet in this book many friendly, well-known poems introducing us to so many wise and/or comic and/or tuneful but always interesting strangers, some ancient, some modern.' Alasdair Gray
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'Scotlands: Poets and the Nation' brings alive the unfolding story of Scottish national identity through its poetry. It opens with the anonymous Celtic poet who wrote of 'Scotland with its wonders'; it concludes with Iain Crichton Smith's secular prayer for a country that is 'fresh and glittering and contemporary' as it moves into a new era. The anthology contains patriotism and satire, moving laments and joke-poems, well-loved treasures of Scottish poetry and the less familiar voices of common men and women through the ages. All the major Scottish poets are represented, as well as Gaelic-language poets in the original language and in translation; poets looking at Scotland from an outsider's perspective, from Shakespeare to Les Murray; and the strong Scottish tradition of women's poetry. From Robert Burns to Kokumo Rocks, from Lady Nairne to Jackie Kay, the collection celebrates the enduring strengths of Scottish identity and imagination. The book contains a comprehensive introduction by Douglas Gifford, Chair of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University and Honorary Librarian of Walter Scott's library, and Alan Riach, Head of the Department of Scottish Literature at Glasgow University and himself a poet.
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