"The Chagall Winnocks with other Scots poems and ballads of
Europe."
"From the forests of Finland to the plain of Lombardy, from a
Scottish beach to a river island in Hungary, Tom Hubbard deploys
the riches of the Scots language to explore that tragicomic space
we call Europe. The poems are variously tender and mischievous in
their reatment of our all-too-human foibles ..."
Hubbard believes that an international outlook and a parochial
one (centred, in his case, on his native Fife) can be mutually
enriching. The poems in "THE CHAGALL WINNOCKS" draw on the folklore
of many European countries, not least that of Scotland - and indeed
it is a retelling of a Fife legend, which opens this collection of
poems, which have grown out of his travels in, and study of, the
continent as a whole.
Many of these poems tell stories, in the form of ballads or the
reworking of traditional tales; conversely, this collection of
poems could be seen as a series of short stories, albeit in verse
form.
Hubbard's new collection is a bold statement of faith in the
Scots language, and echoes Hugh MacDiarmid's remarks on 'the unique
blend of the lyrical and the ludicrous' which is possible in Scots,
'its Dostoevskian debris of ideas - an inexhaustible quarry of
subtle and significant sound' ('A Theory of Scots Letters').
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