The Luncheon of the Boating Party by Stewart Conn
The centrepiece of Stewart Conn's new collection is a sequence of poems inspired by Renoir's famous painting The Luncheon of the Boating Party. Complementing thse and other poets set vividly in southern France are evocations of people and places in his native Scotland and elsewhere. Stewart Conn can be wrily self-deprecatory one moment and startlingly moving the next, and in these new poems he manages to combine delicacy of perception with urgency of expression. This collection is now out of print but much of it is reprinted in his 2014 retrospective The Touch of Time.
Stewart Conn was born in Hillhead, Glasgow, in 1936, and brought up in Ayrshire. His plays include The King (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh), Diehard (Netherbow Theatre, Edinburgh), The Aquarium, The Burning, Play Donkey, Herman and Clay Bull (Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh). Television includes Wally Dugs Go in Pairs, The Kite and Bloodhunt. He was Head of Radio Drama for BBC Scotland from 1977 until 1992. Stewart Conn is also an acclaimed poet, and was Edinburgh's inaugural Makar (Poet Laureate) from 2002-2005. His poetry collections include Estuary, The Loving Cup, The Breakfast Room, Ghosts at Cockrow, In the Kibble Palace, Under the Ice and The Luncheon of the Boating Party. He received the 2011 SMIT Poetry Book of the Year Award, and won the inaugural Institute of Contemporary Scotland's Iain Crichton Smith Award for services to literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852241421 |
| ISBN 10 | 185224142X |
| Title | The Luncheon of the Boating Party |
| Author | Stewart Conn |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1992-05-21 |
| Number of pages | 64 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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