Be the First to Like This: New Scottish Poetry: 1 (Vagabond Poets) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908251352 ISBN 13: 9781908251350

Publisher: Vagabond Voices, 2014

Synopsis

Throw a stone in Edinburgh or Glasgow today and you'll hit a poet. The Scottish spoken word scene has exploded, reaching a level of popularity last seen in the late 1970s, another era, coincidentally, when the issue of Scottish self-determination was in the air. A generation of poets has emerged who have grown up in an age of change, political and technological, with the internet providing them not only with new ways of sharing writing - through their websites, podcasts, Twitter - but also in some cases with a subject too. The Sound of Youngish Scotland is the first attempt to capture the spirit of a diverse scene where every poet is their own movement - from McGuire's hilarious, Beat-inflected deconstructions of sexuality to MacGillivray's mystic tales of Scottish cowboys, equal parts MacDiarmid and McCarthy; from William Letford's building-site tales to Russell Jones' sci-fi poetry. It's a scene where you are just as liable to encounter ancient gods as you are video game characters. The Sound of Youngish Scotland features forty poets, mostly under-forty who have made Scotland their home. It's a survey, a yearbook, a celebration and a promise of things to come.

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An eclectic collection of the zany and wonderful, Be the First to Like This explores the diverse array of modern-day Scottish poetry. --World Literature Today "World Literature Today"

Edition details

• Publisher: Vagabond Voices
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908251352
• ISBN 13: 9781908251350
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220
• Editor: Waters Colin