Isbn: 9781852241100 - waiting for the storm (2 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Signed copy. Very good condition. Signed with date and place. 'Gerald Mangan's poems have been appearing over the years in good magazines, but a collection has eluded him until now - a delay which has exasperated the friends of his work. Quite simply he is one of the best Scottish poets of his generation. At times his energy reminds me of MacNeice's - it is pointed up by 'Scotland the Ghost', his version of 'Bagpipe Music'. Rhythmical charge runs through other poems, too, but his most characteristic work - his best work, I would claim - is meditative, probing, imaginative, and original. He has a sharp eye for Glasgow, but his imagination embraces Scotland as a whole place, which is what I li.…