Laughing at the Clock/Déanamh Gáire Ris A' Chloc:: New & Selected Poems/Dáin Úra Agus Thaghta: New & Selected Poems / Dain Ur Agus Thaghta - Softcover

Aonghas MacNeacail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846972302 ISBN 13: 9781846972300

Publisher: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited, 2012

Synopsis

Shortlisted for the Saltire Book of the Year award Widely regarded as the foremost poet writing today in the Gaelic language, MacNeacail casts his eye on love, aging, memory, language, politics and landscape in this masterful bilingual collection. Demonstrating MacNeacail's usual tight mastery of form and beautifully controlled rhythm, this collection, published to mark the poet's seventieth birthday, is a celebration of the best of contemporary Scottish poetry.

About this title

Product Description:

Widely regarded as the foremost poet writing today in the Gaelic language, MacNeacail casts his eye on love, aging, memory, language, politics and landscape in this masterful bilingual collection. Demonstrating MacNeacail's usual tight mastery of form and beautifully controlled rhythm, this collection, published to mark the poet's seventieth birthday, is a celebration of the best of contemporary Scottish poetry.

Review:

'A splendid book ... These poems are like ancient, but timeless, voices arising from the very landscape of Skye, or ancestral memories expressing themselves in verse.' --The Herald

'Excellent reading... Aonghas Dubh remains as creative as ever' --Cothrom

About this edition

• Publisher: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1846972302
• ISBN 13: 9781846972300
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192