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Whit Lassyz Ur Inty (Paperback)

by Alison Flett (Author)
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  • Paperback: 80 pages
  • Publisher: Thirsty Books (9 Aug 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1902831721
  • ISBN-13: 978-1902831725
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.6 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The long-awaited first collection from Orkney-based Alison Flett (formerly Kermack).

"Her poems, transcribed in a no-holds-barred Edinburgh vernacular, keep their sharpest punches for the end. This is poetry with a purpose."
Scotland on Sunday

The long-awaited first collection from Orkney-based Alison Flett (formerly Kermack).

The author will appear for two performances only at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Venue 264) on 11th and 13th August 2004 as part of the Thirsty Books Live! extravaganza THIRSTY LUNCH.

Funny, tender and uncompromising, the exuberant confidence of Alison Flett's poetry is a welcome reminder of the depth and strength of the Scottish women's literary heritage. It is made possible by her perceptive and sensitive response to women poets who have gone before her.

Her wilful adoption of previously male-dominated urban poetic language bridges both male and female traditions. Her work links the ever-growing consciousness of Scottish women, the notable achievements of poets like Ian Hamilton Finlay and Tom Leonard and the social and political struggles of the people.

Readers of magazines and poetry anthologies will be familiar with Flett's work. Described as a latter-day beat poet with a warm and immediate style, it is time she reached a much wider readership.



About the Author

Alison Flett was born and bred in Edinburgh but now lives in Orkney. She has performed her work on television and radio and at readings throughout the country. She recently won the Belmont prize for children's poetry and has been shortlisted for the 2004 Scotsman/Orange short story award. She is currently working on a book of short stories about island life

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1.0 out of 5 stars Ever had the feeling you've been cheated?, 21 Aug 2006
To say reading this was a disappointment understates the case hugely. I bought the volume to see what the excitement was about, immediately recognised one or two of the poems from several years ago (when the writer published as Alison Kermack) groaned but read on. I really shouldn't have. It is one thing for a poet to be heavily influenced by, or even to "borrow" certain aspects of the style of voice of another: but the ventriloquist act maintained by taking over another poet's voice entirely is not a "wilful adaption of male dominated urban poetic language", merely a wilful and ultimately pointless refusal to do the thing which every genuine writer has to do - find his/her own voice. Flett advances the use of urban poetic language not one inch from where it was left by Tom Leonard 20+ years ago. And applying certain of Leonard's narrative techniques as well as his voice to what are very much one-dimensional, hackneyed treatments of wumman's issues merely aggravates the offence. "Gloriously playful language...artful, mischevious love" my arse: never trust an overwritten blurb.

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