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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Luath Press

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781910745274

RRP: £8.99

PAGES: 128

PUBLICATION DATE:
October 31, 2015

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Rab Wilson

Wilson boldly goes where other poets fear to tread! This book covers manifold subjects, themes and ideas over a wide array of poems from sublime to ridiculous. No other contemporary poet writes quite like Rab Wilson – this new collection underscores his unique view of Scotland and audaciously sets out his poetic manifesto for our country’s future.

Reviews of Design

PRAISE FOR The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam in Scots: The Rubaiyat of Omar… takes on a contemporary gloss in a rumbustious reworking in Scots of the literal text of the Persian poet. – The Herald PRAISE FOR Accent O the Mind: … contain poetry to rival the best published in Scotland, or written by a Scot, in the past 30 years. Bursting with am-bition, technically brilliant and funny… – Scotland on Sunday

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Rab Wilson

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 predomi-nantly 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 a featured poet at the Wigtown Book Festival.