<p>'Our traditional language could hardly have a more eloquent exponent.' LESLEY DUNCAN</p>

Rab Wilson covers the variety of modern Scottish life through refreshingly honest and often humorous poetry, encompassing history, text messaging, politics, asylum-seeking hedgehogs and connoisseurs of Buckfast. Individual poems, whether set in the local supermarket or the former mining towns of his youth, have humour, pathos, sometimes indignation and always a warm immediacy. Rab Wilson is a free spirit who speaks and writes in Scots (in everyday letters and emails as well as poetry) with complete ease and unselfconsciousness. This inspirational collection reaffirms Rab Wilson’s position as one of Scotland’s leading poets and plays a part in the reinvigoration of the Scots language in modern Scottish society.
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Encompassing history, text messaging, politics, asylum-seeking hedgehogs and Buckfast, Rab Wilson covers the variety of modern Scottish life through refreshingly honest and often humorous poetry.
The joy, the pain, the fear, the anger and the shame - topical and contemporary, and mostly in vibrant Scots, this is Scottish poetry at its best. Encompassing history, text messaging, politics, asylum-seeking hedgehogs and Buckfast, Rab Wilson covers the variety of modern Scottish life through refreshingly honest and often humorous poetry. Accent O the Mind follows on from Rab Wilson's ground-breaking translation into Scots of the Persian epic, The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam, with a Scots translation of selected Horace satires. It also includes sonnets inspired by the Miners' Strike of 1984-85; poems he scribed as a Wigtown Bard; and the fascinating results of being twinned with his local MSP. This inspirational new collection consolidates Rab Wilson's position as one of Scotland's most charismatic poets and plays a part in the reinvigoration of the Scots language in modern Scottish society.
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'Our traditional language could hardly have a more eloquent exponent.' LESLEY DUNCAN

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781905222322
Publisert
2006
Utgiver
Vendor
Luath Press Ltd
Vekt
210 gr
Høyde
210 mm
Bredde
136 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Skotsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
128

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Rab Wilson was born in New Cumnock, Ayrshire, in 1960 and worked in the Ayrshire pits until the end of 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, the Burns an a’ That Festival and was recently a featured poet at the Wigtown Book Festival. Rab was one of the recipients of the 2003 McCash Poetry Prize and is currently a member of the Scots Language Society’s National Committee. He now lives in the town of Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire with his wife Margaret and daughter Rachel.