Search results for ""Author Iain Crichton Smith""
Association for Scottish Literary Studies Robin Jenkins's The Cone-Gatherers: (Scotnotes Study Guides)
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Carcanet Press Ltd Ends and Beginnings
"Ends and Beginnings" is Iain Crichton Smith's most ambitious collection for years. It begins in elegy, with the exiles and deaths about which he writes so memorably, and progresses through place, history and positive change. After a trip to the Golan Heights, he conceived a major poem on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, using an unaccustomed Biblical idiom. He considers the isolated people of his native Lewis, and those isolated in a wider culture-scholars, writers, lovers, the old-whose need for communion is thwarted by estranging disciplines or by the depredations of history.
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies George Douglas Brown's House with the Green Shutters: (Scotnotes Study Guides)
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Carcanet Press Ltd Leaf and the Marble
Collection by Iain Crichton Smith begins as a holiday in Italy and is transformed into an exploration of the founding myths of Classical Rome, the poems explore the violence and cruelty of Roman society and contrast it with the world of nature.
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Carcanet Press Ltd Deer on the High Hills: Selected Poems
Growing up on the Isle of Lewis, Iain Crichton Smith spoke only Gaelic until he was five. But at school in Bayble and then Stornoway, everything had to be in English. Like many islanders before and since, his culture is divided: two languages, two histories entailing exile, a central theme of his poetry. His divided perspective sharply delineates the tyranny of history and religion, of the cramped life of small communities; it gives him a tender eye for the struggle of women and men in a world defined by denials. Deer on the High Hills: Selected Poems includes forty years' work and proves that big themes - love, history, power, submission, death - can be addressed without the foil of irony and acquire resonance when given a local habitation and a voice that risks pure, impassioned speech. Editor John Greening provides indexes, a preface and an essay on the life and work of this important poet.
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Birlinn General After the Dance: Selected Stories of Iain Crichton Smith
As a child Iain Crichton Smith was raised speaking Gaelic on the island of Lewis. At school in Stornoway he spoke English. Like many islanders before and since, his culture was divided: two languages and two histories entailing exile. His divided perspective delineated the tyranny of history and religion, of the cramped life of small communities, and gave him a compassionate eye for the struggle of women and men in a world defined by denials. After the Dance proves that big themes – love, history, power, submission, death – can be addressed without the foil of irony and acquire resonance when given a local habitation and a voice that risks pure, humane, impassioned speech. This updated edition includes the story ‘Home’
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Association for Scottish Literary Studies Fifteen Poems of Iain Crichton Smith: A Commentary
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