Reviews
This Edinburgh anthology includes key contemporary and earlier poets such as Edwin Morgan, W S Graham, Liz Lochhead, Robert Crawford, Richard Price and Edwin Muir.
About the Book
Family is the one thing we all know about - whether family gives you strength, or breaks your heart, whether your idea of family stays steadfast through generations, or whether your family is a million miles away from kids or rosy-cheeked grannies. This book helps us think about and celebrate family moments and family members. The contents ranges from Robert Burns to Liz Lochhead, from happy babies to the death of a father. It is the fourth in the series of anthologies which provide words for important occasions ("Handfast", "Handsel" and "Lament", also published by Polygon and the Scottish Poetry Library).The Author
Hamish Whyte
Hamish Whyte is a poet and publisher, with a record of editing outstanding poetry anthologies. He runs Mariscat Press, publishing poetry and is currently an Honorary Research Fellow in the Scottish Literature Department at Glasgow University. He has a new collection of poems due in 2008 from Shoestring Press. With Diana Hendry he has recently co-edited, for children, Poems United: a Commonwealth Anthology (SPL/Black & White), and with Robyn Marsack, From Saturn to Glasgow: 50 favourite poems by Edwin Morgan (SPL/Carcanet for Aye Write).Related
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Paperback | Pub: 02 Jul 2013£9.99Meg Bateman vividly evokes the landscape of Scotland, particularly the brooding presences of the Scottish islands and Sutherland, and touches on personal love and loss in this intimate and celebratory collection.
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Hardback | Pub: 31 Aug 2004£9.99*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...
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Hardback | Pub: 05 Jun 2014£12.99Tom Pow’s beautiful, powerful poems examine the remarkable life of Thomas Watling. Watling was born in Dumfries in September 1762 and raised by a long-suffering maiden aunt. Convicted of forging Bank of Scotland one-guinea notes he was...
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Paperback | Pub: 26 Jul 2006£14.99As a young, strong-willed Victorian “new woman” in Arbroath, Marion wrote colourful, witty and perceptive diaries and articles which revealed her to be knowledgeable, well-travelled, cultured and opinionated. After the death of her...
