Life Sentence: More Poems Chiefly in the Scots Language - Softcover

Wilson, Rab

 
9781906307899: Life Sentence: More Poems Chiefly in the Scots Language
Softcover
ISBN 10: 190630789X ISBN 13: 9781906307899
Verlag: LUATH PR LTD, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Life Sentence follows on from Rab Wilson's ground-breaking collection of poems Accent of the Mind. In this new collection Rab investigates Scottish ancient legends, conflicts throughout history, and contemporary political issues; is inspired by a cultural exchange visit to Ireland; and, presents a powerful sequence containing nine sonnets entitled Quake, based on the themes and ideas suggested to him by earthquakes. This impressive new collection is written in traditional south-west Scots, in standard English and, in Burns tradition, often a combination of the two. This is some of the finest and most innovative contemporary Scottish poetry, above all because it is inspired by life, as Rab Wilson highlights in the title poem, Fir life is whit we are sentenced to.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Rab Wilson was born in New Cumnock, Aryrshire, in 1960 and worked in the Ayrshire pits until the Miners' Strike of 1984. He then left the mining industry to train as a psychiatric nurse in 1986. A Scots poet, Rab writes predominantly in Lallans, and his poetry has appeared in some of Scotland's leading poetry magazines, and regularly in The Herald newspaper's daily poetry column. He has performed his work to varied audiences throughout Scotland and has appeared at the Edinburgh Festival, the Robert Burns International Festival, and was recently Festival Bard at the Wigtown Book Festival. Rab has twice been a prize winner of the McCash Poetry Prize, is currently a member of the Scots Language Society's National Committee and the Robert Burns Writing Fellow for Dumfries and Galloway Arts Association. He lives in New Cumnock.

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Verlag
LUATH PR LTD
Erscheinungsdatum
2009
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
190630789X
ISBN 13 
9781906307899
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
128
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