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Book SynopsisDavid Kinloch is one of the notable Scottish poets of his generation. Edwin Morgan admired his 'sparkling poems full of sensuous richness and linguistic inventiveness'; and Douglas Messerli declared, 'David Kinloch is surely one of the most innovative poets ever to come out of Scotland... [his] readers must be prepared to take a long voyage through language, imagination, and space. While it isn't always easy, it's always worth the trip.' This is his fifth Carcanet collection. It includes a distillation of his earlier work, and new poems that delight and challenge. Morgan praised his success in the 'impossible genre', the prose poem, his elegies, his flytings. He has been an activist as well as a poet, helping to set up The Edwin Morgan Trust and the first Scottish Writers' Centre.
Trade Review'At once lyrical and playful, measured and courageous, adventurous yet unashamedly intellectual, David Kinloch fuses a contemporary sensibility with a subtle sense of history. His distinctive, companionable articulation of Francophilia, gay life, and Scottish culture gives the work a winning and lasting integrity.' - Robert Crawford; 'Greengown collects the key poems of David Kinloch's remarkable body of work to date. You don't read his poems so much as live inside them. They offer a thoughtful and tender world that is utterly distinctive. As the first in UK poetry to bear sustained witness to the tragedy of AIDS, Kinloch's early work has astonishing maturity. He is rightly acknowledged as a master of the prose poem, the technique clearly forged in the development of his queer poetics.' - Richard Price
