{"product_id":"be-the-first-to-like-this-new-scottish-poetry-9781908251350","title":"Be the First to Like This: New Scottish Poetry","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrow 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. The Sound of Youngish Scotland is the first attempt to capture the spirit of a diverse scene where every poet is their own movement  -  from McGuire's hilarious, Beat-inflected deconstructions of sexuality to MacGillivray's mystic tales of Scottish cowboys, equal parts MacDiarmid and McCarthy; from William Letford's building-site tales to Russell Jones' sci-fi poetry. It's a scene where you are just as liable to encounter ancient gods as you are video game characters. The Sound of Youngish Scotland features forty poets, mostly under-forty who have made Scotland their home. It's a survey, a yearbook, a celebration and a promise of things to come.","brand":"Vagabond Voices","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49414318457175,"sku":"9781908251350","price":11.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781908251350.jpg?v=1730523197","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/be-the-first-to-like-this-new-scottish-poetry-9781908251350","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}