Chuckies Fir the Cairn: Poems in Scots and Gaelic by Contemporary Dumfries and Galloway Poets - Softcover

Wilson, Rab

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906817057 ISBN 13: 9781906817053

Publisher: Luath Pr, 2009

Synopsis

Scotland has built great literature out of its richly textured language. Like the stones bound together in a wall, the poets linkied here by location and shared language embody the beauty of their country and the passion 'pulsin through its heirt'. These Dumfries and Galloway poets, free in their own inimitable styles and approaches, are bound together by the unique culture of Scotland. Their poems help to raise the wall of that culture in the modern world.

About this title

About the Author:

Rab Wilson was born in New Cumnock, Aryrshire, in 1960 and worked in the Ayrshire pits until the Miners' Strike of 1984. He then left the mining industry to train as a psychiatric nurse in 1986. A Scots poet, Rab writes predominantly in Lallans, and his poetry has appeared in some of Scotland's leading poetry magazines, and regularly in The Herald newspaper's daily poetry column. He has performed his work to varied audiences throughout Scotland and has appeared at the Edinburgh Festival, the Robert Burns International Festival, and was recently Festival Bard at the Wigtown Book Festival. Rab has twice been a prize winner of the McCash Poetry Prize, is currently a member of the Scots Language Society's National Committee and the Robert Burns Writing Fellow for Dumfries and Galloway Arts Association. He lives in New Cumnock.

Review:

'The poets Rab Wilson has gathered in this anthology represent and important and often neglected strand in contemporary Scottish poetry. Native Scots-speaking poets whose chosen language is distinct from English and expressive beyond the capacities of that sister-language, they are committed to their country, their place and the people who inhabit the world beside them. However, earthed and native as they are, there is nothing narrowing or oversimplified here.' - ALAN RIACH The range and liveliness of the poems are a testament to the continuing vitality of the Scots language in Dumfries and Galloway - THE HERALD

About this edition

• Publisher: Luath Pr
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1906817057
• ISBN 13: 9781906817053
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256