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25%OFFMick Imlah - The Lost Leader - 9780571243075 - V9780571243075
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The Lost Leader

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Description for The Lost Leader Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 170.

'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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571243075
SKU
V9780571243075
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99-10

About Mick Imlah
Mick Imlah was born in 1956 and brought up near Glasgow and in Kent. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he subsequently taught as a Junior Fellow. He was editor of Poetry Review from 1983 to 1986, and worked at the Times Literary Supplement since 1992. His poems have appeared in The Zoologist's Bath (1982), Birthmarks ... Read more

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