Getting Higher: The Complete Mountain Poems

✍ Scribed by Andrew Greig

• Book ID: 110817452
• Publisher: Birlinn
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780857900258

✦ Synopsis

Andrew Greig is a Scottish poet of sensitivity and resilience. He deals with high-risk situations - from mountaineering to love - and is particularly good at presenting the gamut of feelings involved in rites of passage: high endeavour, commitment, holding back, drift, release' - Edwin Morgan 'A writer of integrity and imaginative energy' - TLS 'A lyric poet of rare gusto' - The Observer Alongside the mountain poems from Men on Ice, Order of the Day and Western Swing, Getting Higher features brand new material, facsimiles of previously unpublished material - including his first poem, written in 1972 - and illustrations and material from the National Library of Scotland archive. A beautiful collector's item full of illustrations, marginalia and notes.