Selected Poems

MacDiarmid, Hugh; Riach, Alan; Grieve, Michael (eds)

ISBN 10: 0856359866 / ISBN 13: 9780856359866

Published by Carcanet, Manchester, 1992

About this Item

red cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 284 pp.

Seller Inventory # 112340

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Selected Poems
• Publisher: Carcanet, Manchester
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0856359866
• ISBN 13: 9780856359866
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Cloth/dust jacket Octavo.
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Hardcover with unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Jacket is slightly sunned and edges are a little creased. Board spine ends are a touch bumped, and a few small blemishes on the page block. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW

About the Author

Alan Riach was born in Airdrie, Lanarkshire, in 1957. He studied at Cambridge and Glasgow and worked in New Zealand at the University of Waikato from 1986-2000. He is the author of Hugh MacDiarmid's Epic Poetry and Representing Scotland in Literature, Popular Culture and Iconography. He is currently the Professor of Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow, and President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies.

Eliot Weinberger (b. NYC, 1949), is an essayist and translator. He won PEN s first Gregory Kolovakos Award for promoting Hispanic literature in the US, and he is America s first literary writer to receive Mexico s Order of the Aztec Eagle. He lives in New York City.