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Author : Norman MacCaig
Publisher : Calder Publications Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Scottish Verse, 1959-1969 written by Norman MacCaig and published by Calder Publications Limited. This book was released on 1970 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colin Waters
Publisher : Vagabound Voices Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781908251350
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Be the First to Like this written by Colin Waters and published by Vagabound Voices Pub Limited. This book was released on 2014 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throw a stone in Edinburgh or Glasgow today and you'll hit a poet. The Scottish spoken word scene has exploded, reaching a level of popularity last seen in the late 1970s, another era, coincidentally, when the issue of Scottish self-determination was in the air. A generation of poets has emerged who have grown up in an age of change, political and technological, with the internet providing them not only with new ways of sharing writing - through their websites, podcasts, Twitter - but also in some cases with a subject too. It's a scene where you are just as liable to encounter ancient gods as you are video game characters. This book is a survey, a yearbook, a celebration, and a promise of things to come.
Author : Peter Mackay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139499947
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry written by Peter Mackay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comparative study of the literatures of Ireland and Scotland has emerged as a distinct and buoyant field in recent years. This collection of new essays offers the first sustained comparison of modern Irish and Scottish poetry, featuring close readings of texts within broad historical and political contextualisation. Playing on influences, crossovers, connections, disconnections and differences, the 'affinities' and 'opposites' traced in this book cross both Irish and Scottish poetry in many directions. Contributors include major scholars of the new 'archipelagic' approach, as well as leading Irish and Scottish poets providing important insights into current creative practice. Poets discussed include W. B. Yeats, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Louis MacNeice, Edwin Morgan, Douglas Dunn, Seamus Heaney, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala ni Dhomhnaill, Don Paterson and Kathleen Jamie. This book is a major contribution to our understanding of poetry from these islands in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Author : Matt McGuire
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350308773
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Scottish Literature written by Matt McGuire and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-24 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Guide examines the critical construction of the genre of 'contemporary Scottish literature' and assesses the critical responses to a wide range of contemporary Scottish fiction, poetry and drama. The Guide is structured thematically with each chapter addressing a specific area of debate within the field of contemporary Scottish Studies.
Author : Matt McGuire
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748636277
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry written by Matt McGuire and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last three decades have seen unprecedented flourishing of creativity across the Scottish literary landscape, so that contemporary Scottish poetry constitutes an internationally renowned, award-winning body of work. At the heart of this has been the work of poets. As this poetry makes space for its own innovative concerns, it renegotiates the poetic inheritance of preceding generations. At the same time, Scottish poetry continues to be animated by writing from other places. The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Poetry is the definitive guide to this flourishing poetic scene. Its chapters examine Scottish poetry in all three of the nation's languages. It analyses many thematic preoccupations: tradition and innovation; revolutions in gender; the importance of place; the aesthetic politics of devolution. These chapters are complemented by extended close readings of the work of key poets that have defined this era, including Edwin Morgan, Kathleen Jamie, Don Paterson, Aonghas MacNeacail and John Burnside.
Author : Stewart Conn
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781905222612
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (226 download)
Download or read book 100 Favourite Scottish Poems written by Stewart Conn and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland has a long history of producing outstanding poetry. From the humblest but-and-ben to the grandest castle, the nation had a great tradition of celebration and commemoration through poetry. 100 favourite Scottish poems - incorporating the nation's best-loved poems as selected in a BBC Scotland listeners poll - ranges from the ballads of Burns from Proud Maisie to The Queen of Sheba, and from Cuddle Doon to The Jeelie Piece Song.
Author : Monika Szuba
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474450628
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Scottish Poetry and the Natural World written by Monika Szuba and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the representation of landscape in the poetry of John Burnside, Kathleen Jamie, Robin Robertson and Kenneth White Provides an interdisciplinary approach to the representation of landscape in contemporary poetryOpens up the dialogue between ecocriticism and phenomenologyProvides significant original discussion of major Scottish poetsReassesses the work and place of Kenneth White's poetry and thoughtWith an exciting and provocative approach to the reading of landscape and the non-human world in the work of four major Scottish poets, this groundbreaking book merges phenomenology and ecocritical literary criticism. It explores these poets' organic, intimate interrelation between the self and the world, their relationship to the landscape and connection with nature.
Author : Robin Robertson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547483333
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (474 download)
Download or read book The Wrecking Light written by Robin Robertson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of poetry by acclaimed UK poet Robin Robertson
Author : Kirstie Blair
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192581953
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Working Verse in Victorian Scotland written by Kirstie Blair and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reassesses working-class poetry and poetics in Victorian Britain, using Scotland as a focus and with particular attention to the role of the popular press in fostering and disseminating working-class verse cultures. It studies a very wide variety of writers who are unknown to scholarship, and assesses the political, social, and cultural work which their poetry performed. During the Victorian period, Scotland underwent unprecedented changes in terms of industrialization, the rise of the city, migration, and emigration. This study shows how poets who defined themselves as part of a specifically Scottish tradition responded to these changes. It substantially revises our understanding of Scottish literature in this period, while contributing to wider investigations of the role of popular verse in national and international cultures.
Author : Gerda Stevenson
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1912387786
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Quines written by Gerda Stevenson and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singers, politicians, a fish-gutter, queens, a dancer, a marine engineer, a salt seller, sportswomen, scientists and many more – Quines celebrates and explores the richly diverse contribution women have made to Scottish history and society.
Author : Robert Crawford
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9780140587111
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (871 download)
Download or read book The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse written by Robert Crawford and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first anthology to offer a view over the entire history of Scottish poetry, extending from the sixth to the end of the 20th century, and representing each of its stylistic currents with clarity and verve.
Author : David Malcolm
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111884324X
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)
Download or read book A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960 - 2015 written by David Malcolm and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and scholarly review of contemporary British and Irish Poetry With contributions from noted scholars in the field, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a collection of writings from a diverse group of experts. They explore the richness of individual poets, genres, forms, techniques, traditions, concerns, and institutions that comprise these two distinct but interrelated national poetries. Part of the acclaimed Blackwell Companion to Literature and Culture series, this book contains a comprehensive survey of the most important contemporary Irish and British poetry. The contributors provide new perspectives and positions on the topic. This important book: Explores the institutions, histories, and receptions of contemporary Irish and British poetry Contains contributions from leading scholars of British and Irish poetry Includes an analysis of the most prominent Irish and British poets Puts contemporary Irish and British poetry in context Written for students and academics of contemporary poetry, A Companion to Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, 1960-2015 offers a comprehensive review of contemporary poetry from a wide range of diverse contributors.
Author : James Acheson
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791427682
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Contemporary British Poetry written by James Acheson and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-09-12 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays focuses on new and continuing movements in British Poetry. It offers a wide ranging look at feminist, working class, and other poets of diverse cultural backgrounds.
Author : Kathleen Jamie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Waterlight written by Kathleen Jamie and published by . This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of verse by the Scottish poet explores gender, nature, landscape, and nationhood.
Author : Tracey Herd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dead Redhead written by Tracey Herd and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead Redhead is a Book of the Dead in which the women have the starring roles, from Ophelia and Marilyn to girl detective Nancy Drew. The heroines celebrated in Tracey Herd's dramatically powerful poems are all hunted or haunted by people or powers beyond their control. And so they die at the hands of serial killers and revolutionaries, or ravaged by murderous fame, or they take their own lives. But all are vibrant, defiant women who give themselves to life, only to be betrayed by those they believe as well as by their own dreams. Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
Author : Ian Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748630651
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)
Download or read book Edinburgh History of Scottish Literature: Modern Transformations: New Identities (from 1918) written by Ian Brown and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In almost a century since the First World War ended, Scotland has been transformed in many rich ways. Its literature has been an essential part of that transformation. The third volume of the History, explores the vibrancy of modern Scottish literature in all its forms and languages. Giving full credit to writing in Gaelic and by the Scottish diaspora, it brings together the best contemporary critical insights from three continents. It provides an accessible and refreshing picture of both the varieties of Scottish literatures and the kaleidoscopic versions of Scotland that mark literary developments since 1918.
Author : Sebastiaan Verweij
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191074578
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Literary Culture of Early Modern Scotland written by Sebastiaan Verweij and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study presents a history of the literary culture of early-modern Scotland (1560-1625), based on extensive study of the literary manuscript. It argues for the importance of three key places of production of such manuscripts: the royal court, burghs and towns, and regional houses (stately homes, but also minor lairdly and non-aristocratic households). This attention to place facilitates a discussion of, respectively, courtly, urban or civic, and regional literary cultures. Sebastiaan Verweij's methodology stems from bibliographical scholarship and the study of the 'History of the Book', and more specifically, from a school of manuscript research that has invigorated early-modern English literary criticism over the last few decades. The Literary Culture of Early Modern Scotland will also intersect with a programme of reassessment of early-modern Scottish culture that is currently underway in Scottish studies. Traditional narratives of literary history have often regarded the Reformation of 1560 as heralding a terminal cultural decline, and the Union of Crowns of 1603, with the departure of king and court, was thought to have brought the briefest of renaissances (in the 1580s and 1590s) to an early end. This book purposefully straddles the Union, in order to make possible the rediscovery of Scotland's refined and sophisticated renaissance culture.
