Fetch

Bramwell, Colin

ISBN 10: 1916751695 / ISBN 13: 9781916751699

Published by And Other Stories, 2026

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fetch
• Publisher: And Other Stories
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1916751695
• ISBN 13: 9781916751699
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

An exceptional Scottish debut, Fetch stands out for its formal dexterity, linguistic hybridity and playfulness – Bramwell takes the lyric seriously, but not too seriously.

In Celtic folklore a fetch is a shadowy doppelganger that appears from the Otherworld, portending the beholder’s fate. Your fetch ‘fetches’ you to the afterlife, willingly or otherwise. Bramwell’s poetry uses the fetch as a model to explore a number of overlapping binaries - between the reader and the poem, most of all. Fetch also meditates on the differences between music and speech, the sacred and the profane, the written and the real, humanity and nature, Scots and English. Incorporating multitudes of modes, forms, registers and subjects, Bramwell converses with the Anglo-Celtic lyric tradition in our own time and in his own distinctively amiable fashion. In other words, this poet takes poetry seriously––but not too seriously.

Fetch is a tour-de-force debut from one of Britain’s most exciting new poets, in which reverence and irreverence, religion and faithlessness, the living and the dead, nearly rhyme.

About the Author

Colin Bramwell's poetry has been published widely in major poetry magazines and in his pamphlet The Highland Citizenship Test. He was the runner-up for the 2020 Edwin Morgan Prize, and his translations have won the John Dryden Translation Competition and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize. From the Black Isle, he now lives in Edinburgh.