David Kinloch was born in Glasgow in 1959 and is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at the University of Strathclyde. He is the co-founder of the poetry magazine Verse. Carcanet also publishes the poet's previous collection, Un Tour d'Ecosse (2001).
Description
Table of Contents In My Father's House I Set Off Upon my Journey to the House of Shaws Loch Morar Avalon Ralph I Presume A Cardross Callas Pagliacci Tremmlin Tree The Cure 'Ye caun traistly' Psychomachia Song Daithfugue Thresholds The Earth Dies Too Roger Casement's Beard Tenebrae La Tour de Ganne Pictures at an Exhibition An Encounter Dancing in the Archives 'A dunnerin: it is' Ghost Seed 'In waters nor o thi future' Painting by Numbers 4 Shifts 'The skyrin' Remission Lazarus Assisi Belonging 'Because ye fund the trauchleskelf' Inquisition Impressions of Africa Tae Rimbaud A Walk 'Knock thi' Baines His Dissection
Reviews
'A sparkling collection: full of sensuous richness and linguistic inventiveness.' - Edwin Morgan.