Beyond Identity: New Horizons in Modern Scottish Poetry

✍ Scribed by Dośa, Attila

• Publisher: Brill/Rodopi
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 330
• Series: SCROLL: Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature Ser
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

InBeyond Identity, thirteen of Scotland's best known poets reflect upon the theoretical, practical and political considerations involved in the act of writing. They furnish a unique guide to contemporary Scottish poetry, discussing a range of issues that include nationhood, education, language, religion, landscape, translation and identity. John Burnside, Robert Crawford, Douglas Dunn, Kathleen Jamie, Edwin Morgan, Kenneth White and others, together with such noted experimentalists as Frank Kuppner, Tom Leonard and Richard Price, explore questions about the relationship between social, economic and ecological realities and their poetic transformation. These interviews are set within the altered political context that followed from the re-establishment of a Scottish Parliament in 1999 and the potential of a renewed engagement with wider European culture.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction: Scotland, Poetry and Other Realities......Page 12
Edwin Morgan: Our Man in Glasgow......Page 36
Douglas Dunn: A Different Drummer......Page 60
Robert Crawford: The Emphatic Soul......Page 80
John Burnside: Poets and Other Animals......Page 114
Kathleen Jamie: More Than Human......Page 136
Don Paterson: The Music of Consciousness......Page 148
Tom Leonard: The Sound of Poetry......Page 168
Frank Kuppner: The Pragmatism of Profundity......Page 190
W.N. Herbert: The Poetry Game......Page 222
Kate Clanchy: The Sister Art......Page 244
Kenneth White: A Strategist of Mutation......Page 260
Aonghas Macneacail: Land, Language, Memory......Page 282
Richard Price: Signage on the Super Highway......Page 302
Index......Page 326