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PUBLISHER: Birlinn General

FORMAT: Hardback

ISBN: 9781904598244

RRP: £9.99

PAGES: 64

PUBLICATION DATE:
August 31, 2004

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Handfast: Scottish Poems for Weddings and Affirmations

Liz Lochhead

Lizzie MacGregor

*Suitable for reading aloud – a lot of similar anthologies have weddings as their subject but don’t offer really public poems *Chosen by the Scottish Poetry Library’s Assistant Librarian, who has been answering the constant stream of requests for such poems for the last ten years, and knows what is valued *Introduction by one of Scotland’s most famous poets *New pieces by well-known poets specially written for this volume

Liz Lochhead

Lizzie MacGregor is the Assistant Librarian of the Scottish Poetry Library, in the heart of Edinburgh’s Old Town. She has previously compiled “Luckenbooth,” “Handsel”””and “Lament” – all published by Polygon.

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