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Item Details
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ROBERT GARIOCH
COLLECTED POEMS |
| By: |
Robin Fulton (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£14.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1904598072 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781904598077 |
| Publisher: |
BIRLINN GENERAL |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2004 |
| Pages: |
267 |
| Description: |
Robert Garioch was one of Scotland's most distinctive poetic voices. Born in Edinburgh in 1909, he was educated at the university there, and embarked on a teaching career, writing poetry in his free time. His first publication was 'Seventeen Poems for Sixpence (1940), a collaboration with Sorley Maclean, whom he had got to know as a student. |
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Garioch's most well-known work is his satirical and humorous verse written in Scots, such as the Edinburgh Sonnets, Embro to the Ploy and The Canny Hen. These poems offer shrewd observations of the city and its inhabitants, and Garioch himself acknowledged the influence of another of Edinburgh's great poets, Robert Fergusson, in this respect. Garioch was also well-known as the translator into Scots of authors as disparate as Apollinaire, Pindar and the nineteenth-century Roman poet Guiseppe Belli, with whom he felt a particular affinity. He also wrote an autobiographical work, Two Men and a Blanket, in which he recounts his experiences as a prisoner-of-war in Italy and Germany in the 1940s. Towards the end of his life, he was Writer-in-Residence at Edinburgh University, and also worked as lexicographer and transcriber in the School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh University. He died in 1981. This is the first major volume of Robert Garioch's poetry in over twenty years. Unlike the previous edition of his work (1983), it follows Garioch's own ordering of his poems, includes his own notes, as well as editorial explanations for readers unfamiliar with Garioch's Edinburgh background and |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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