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Accent O the Mind Rab Wilson

Accent O the Mind By Rab Wilson

Accent O the Mind by Rab Wilson


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Summary

Encompassing history, text messaging, politics, asylum-seeking hedgehogs and Buckfast, Rab Wilson covers the variety of modern Scottish life through refreshingly honest and often humorous poetry.

Accent O the Mind Summary

Accent O the Mind by Rab Wilson

Rab Wilson covers the variety of modern Scottish life through refreshingly honest and often humorous poetry, encompassing history, text messaging, politics, asylum-seeking hedgehogs and connoisseurs of Buckfast. Individual poems, whether set in the local supermarket or the former mining towns of his youth, have humour, pathos, sometimes indignation and always a warm immediacy. Rab Wilson is a free spirit who speaks and writes in Scots (in everyday letters and emails as well as poetry) with complete ease and unselfconsciousness. This inspirational collection reaffirms Rab Wilson's position as one of Scotland's leading poets and plays a part in the reinvigoration of the Scots language in modern Scottish society.

Accent O the Mind Reviews

'Our traditional language could hardly have a more eloquent exponent.' LESLEY DUNCAN

About Rab Wilson

Rab Wilson was born in New Cumnock, Ayrshire, in 1960 and worked in the Ayrshire pits until the end of the Miners' Strike of 1984. He then left the mining industry to train as a psychiatric nurse in 1986. A Scots poet, Rab writes predominantly in Lallans, and his poetry has appeared in some of Scotland's leading poetry magazines, and regularly in The Herald newspaper's daily poetry column. He has performed his work to varied audiences throughout Scotland and has appeared at the Edinburgh Festival, the Robert Burns International Festival, the Burns an a' That Festival and was recently a featured poet at the Wigtown Book Festival. Rab was one of the recipients of the 2003 McCash Poetry Prize and is currently a member of the Scots Language Society's National Committee. He now lives in the town of Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire with his wife Margaret and daughter Rachel.

Additional information

GOR004048832
9781905222322
1905222327
Accent O the Mind by Rab Wilson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Luath Press Ltd
20060401
128
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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