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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Carcanet Press Ltd

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781857540932

RRP: £9.95

PAGES: 164

PUBLICATION DATE:
October 13, 1994

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Ends and Beginnings

Iain Crichton-Smith

A collection of the author’s poems, which begin in elegy and progress through place, history and change, to optimism. After a trip to the Golan Heights, he conceived a major poem on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He also considers the isolated people of his native Lewes.

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Iain Crichton-Smith

Iain Crichton Smith was born in 1928 on the island of Lewis. Educated at Aberdeen University, he became a teacher after national service. In 1977 he resigned to write full time. He received many awards, including the OBE in 1980. He died in 1998. Carcanet publish his Selected Poems (1985), Collected Poems (1992, paper-back 1996), Ends and Beginnings (1995), The Human Face (1997), The Leaf and the Marble (1998) and Selected Stories (1990).