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Sun Behind the Castle
Angus Calder
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Description for Sun Behind the Castle
Paperback. The Edinburgh of Angus Calder's poems is not the city of summer tourism and landmark buildings. It is the all-the-year-round arena of lingering mists or brilliant sunlight on grey stone, where seagulls and pigeons command the early-morning streets, curlers sweep their ice at Murrayfield and coarse sportsmen revel on the Meadows. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 209 x 9. Weight in Grams: 142.
The Edinburgh of Angus Calder's poems is not the city of summer tourism and landmark buildings. It is the all-the-year-round arena of lingering mists or brilliant sunlight on grey stone, where seagulls and pigeons command the early-morning streets, curlers sweep their ice at Murrayfield and coarse sportsmen revel on the Meadows.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781842820780
SKU
V9781842820780
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-29
About Angus Calder
Poet, polemical journalist, literary critic and historian. Winner of two SAC book awards. Funding convenor of the Scottish Poetry Library (1984) Best known as a historian of the Second World War and the British Empire. Formerly staff tutor in Arts, Open University in Scotland. Now freelance writer.
Reviews for Sun Behind the Castle
These poems could not have been written anywhere but Edinburgh. This, the most beautiful, wry, challenging and haunting city in the British isles, with its "classic grey - most delicious of lourdness, an ecstasy of glum" is the true hero/heroine of the pages that follow. These poems have the confidence and lightness of words at home in their own streets. ... Read more