Douglas Lipton: Scottish Poet
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Description: Biography, events and selected poems.
Douglas Lipton’s substantial new collection, , opens with both feet very much in Edwin Muir’s ‘other land’ and not in Eden. ‘A Grandchild Sings’ uses the form of a child’s litany to catalogue a sense of world-wrong and impending catastrophe: ‘the beaches are heavy with whales/and the air is bouncing with flies.’ Our troubled covenant with nature is just about intact at the end as ‘Dolly is having a baby’ – indeed, it is what the baby is being born into, a fallen human condition and a ‘sullied’ environment, that is the main subject matter of this skilled and memorable book.
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| Keywords: | Douglas Lipton, poet, poetry, Scottish poet, Moffat Academy, Lockerbie, William McIlvanney, Orbis, New Writing Scotland, Edinburgh International Fringe, Songs for the Falling Angel, Scottish Arts Council, Lockerbie disaster, Pan American Flight 103, stone sleeping bag, independent Scotland, Scottish Poetry Library, poems |
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| Date | Last updated: 05-Dec-2013 Expiry date: 07-Nov-2015 |