Accent O the Mind by Rab Wilson
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.'Our traditional language could hardly have a more eloquent exponent' LESLEY DUNCAN
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781905222322 |
| ISBN 10 | 1905222327 |
| Title | Accent O the Mind |
| Author | Rab Wilson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Luath Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2006-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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