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Title: THE LOST LEADER
By: Mick Imlah
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 057124307X
ISBN 13: 9780571243075
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Publisher: FABER & FABER
Pub. date: 1 May, 2008
Edition: Main
Pages: 144
Description: Features poems about friends and family - childhood reminiscences, elegies and celebrations - influenced by sporting and military fantasy, the charm of history and the power of anachronism.
Synopsis: 'No poet in Scotland now can take as his inspiration the folk impulse that created the ballads, the people's songs, the legends of Mary Stuart and Prince Charlie,' proposed Edwin Muir. Yet many of the poems in Mick Imlah's new collection do take the most over-worn of Scottish myths as their apparent starting points, spanning the Wallace and the Bruce; the Bonnie Prince (pivotal "Lost Leader" of the title), Robert Burns and Walter Scott; whisky, Clydeside and football. Imlah's approach to this folklore is brilliantly fresh, a modern, sardonic but strongly-felt rendering of Scotland: from AD 500, by way of a guided tour of Iona, to yesterday at a Dumfries bus depot. And, as the chronicle reaches the twentieth century, the poems turn to friends and family - childhood reminiscences, elegies and celebrations - influenced still by sporting and military fantasy, the charm of history and the power of anachronism.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Prizes: Winner of Forward Poetry Prize: Best Collection 2008 Short-listed for T S Eliot Prize 2008
Returns: Returnable
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