Description
Book SynopsisFar Field is the third and final book in The Auchensale Trilogy, a series of poetry cycles capturing the changing rural landscape of the West of Scotland. Following on from its predecessors Black Cart and Bale Fire, the book consists of three cycles bound together by footers.
A number of poems in the early part of the book are in response to paintings by the Glasgow Boys particularly those painted during their time spent in agricultural communities. Many of the poems are highly personal with a number about family members. These include a series of elegies for his late father. It also focuses on the present day looking to the challenges ahead for the family farm and that passing baton to the next generation.
Trade Review'With his latest poetry collection, Glasgow Makar Jim Carruth brings his Auchensale Trilogy to an elegiac yet also cautiously optimistic close'
-- Roger Cox * The Scotsman *
'Moving, gripping and entertaining, the poems of The Auchensale Trilogy are also a source of new understanding of a crucial part of Scottish life'
-- Andrew Roberts * The National *
'I am in awe of his verbal power and the author’s fidelity to love, loss, and community. This is a book of land and landscapes, and the gift of being alive to them'
-- David Morley
'I cannot think of any other collection which so intimately and sensitively documents a beloved corner of a beloved country and the folk who farmed there, through all their seasons and weathers'
-- John Glenday
'In deeply moving poems, as fierce as they are tender, Carruth honours a way of life that is threatened or already lost... Every line is as honed as the landscape, evoking the harrowing, relentless aspects of farming as well as the meaning and beauty to be found in everyday routines'
-- Jane Clarke
'Written out of personal experience and family history, these compelling, absorbing books exploring myth, pain, loss, and joy are powerful and tender'
-- Maria Isakova-Bennett
