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PUBLISHER: Birlinn General
FORMAT: Paperback
ISBN: 9781846972119
RRP: £9.99
PAGES: 288
PUBLICATION DATE:
March 1, 2012
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These Islands, We Sing: An Anthology of Scottish Islands Poetry
Many of Scotland’s most important poets grew up or chose to live on Scottish islands. This anthology pays tribute to the islands’ creative output by bringing together a huge array of poetic talent, from the internationally-renowned – Sorley Maclean, Iain Crichton Smith, George Mackay Brown, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Hugh MacDiarmid – to those fantastic poets deserving of more attention – Jim Mainland, Aonghas MacNeacail, Meg Bateman, Alex Cluness, Jen Hadfield, and many more – in one wonderful collection. With poems exploring the themes of love, language, landscape, identity and belonging, ‘These Islands, We Sing’ is a significant and heartfelt celebration of poetry and place.
Reviews of These Islands, We Sing: An Anthology of Scottish Islands Poetry
'Excellent' – Press & Journal
Kevin MacNeil
Editor Kevin MacNeil was born and raised in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Novelist, poet, playwright, editor, aphorist and lyricist, his books include ‘A Method Actor’s Guide to Jekyll and Hyde’, ‘The Stornoway Way’, ‘Love and Zen in the Outer Hebrides’ and ‘Be Wise Be Otherwise’. He is currently working on an album with William Campbell, a new novel, a film, a play and a travelogue-memoir based on his 1,300km cycle down the Danube in September 2009 for two cancer charities.