Another powerful collection from the poet who launched the Picador poetry list, author of A Painted Field, which won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. His main subject is his own detached, fierce, Scottish eye: on landscape and sea, on love, sex, violence. His use of language is deadpan, tense, precise, unforgiving.
Another powerful collection from the poet who launched the Picador poetry list, author of A Painted Field, which won the Forward Prize for Best First ...
In Scots, the verb 'swither' has two meanings: to be doubtful, to waver, to be in two minds; and to appear in shifting forms - indeterminate and volatile. This book presents from disarmingly direct poems about the end of childhood to erotically charged lyr
In Scots, the verb 'swither' has two meanings: to be doubtful, to waver, to be in two minds; and to appear in shifting forms - indeterminate and volat...
