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'Luminous' The Times 'Beautiful' Caught by the River Bringing
together contemporary Scottish writing on nature and landscape,
this inspiring collection takes us from walking to wild swimming,
from red deer to pigeons and wasps, from remote islands to back
gardens, through prose, poetry and photography. Edited and
introduced by Kathleen Jamie, and with contributions from Amy
Liptrot, Jim Crumley, Chitra Ramaswamy, Malachy Tallack, Amanda
Thomson and many more, Antlers of Water urges us to renegotiate our
relationship with the more-than-human world, in writing which is by
turns celebratory, radical and political.
"This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian
Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden,
Little Sparta, a unique "poem of place" in which poetry, sculpture,
and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention
to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and
richness of his poetics. It illuminates the evolution from his
early years of composing plays, stories, and lyrical poems to his
discovery of Concrete poetry and his emergence as a key figure in
the international avant-garde of the 1960s"--
"This volume surveys the life and work of the Scottish poet Ian
Hamilton Finlay, who is best known for his extraordinary garden,
Little Sparta, a unique "poem of place" in which poetry, sculpture,
and horticulture intersect. This book directs sustained attention
to Finlay the verbal artist, revealing the full breadth and
richness of his poetics. It illuminates the evolution from his
early years of composing plays, stories, and lyrical poems to his
discovery of Concrete poetry and his emergence as a key figure in
the international avant-garde of the 1960s"--
the road north is a word-map of Scotland, composed by Alec Finlay
& Ken Cockburn as they travel through their homeland, guided by
the Japanese poet Basho, whose Osu-no-Hosomichi (Narrow Road to the
Deep North) is one of the masterpieces of travel literature. Ken
and Alec left Edo (Edinburgh) on May 16, 2010 - the very same date
that basho and his companion Sora departed in 1689 - and on their
return, on May 16, 2011, they published 53 collaborative audio
& visual poems describing the landscapes they had seen and the
people they had met.
Be My Reader is a trove of texts made and found by Finlay over the
past two decades, touching on philosophy, landscape, dance,
football, travel and technology. Affectionate, celebratory and
vulnerable by turns, it includes such key texts as his popular
homage to Robert Creeley 'I Know A Poem', the long poem-mapping of
the Wittgenstein Hut in Norway, and poems which emerged from art
projects for civic spaces and landscapes, all interspersed with
pitch-perfect renderings of off-key phrases overheard and chanced
upon. Formally adventurous and restlessly curious, Be My Reader is
a unique confluence of contemporary experimental and generative
forms together with the lyric voice.
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