Black Cart by Jim Carruth

Black Cart by Jim Carruth

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Almost eighteen years in the making, this collection is a love poem to a rural community in Scotland. The freshness of its language brings the daily grind, its joys and harsh realities, to vivid life; its final elegies form a moving testament to a lost generation of family, friends, farmers and farms.

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Black Cart by Jim Carruth

Almost eighteen years in the making, this collection is a love poem to a rural community in Scotland. The freshness of its language brings the daily grind, its joys and harsh realities, to vivid life; its final elegies form a moving testament to a lost generation of family, friends, farmers and farms.

'Carruth’s poetry is important to Scotland'

-- Douglas Dunn

'It is a quiet, beautiful collection, poems punctuated by the names of fields, of grasses, and of disused dairy farmsI trust every word'

-- Gillian Clarke

Jim Carruth was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, and grew up on his family’s farm near Kilbarchan. He has won both the James McCash poetry competition and the McLellan Poetry Prize and was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2009. He was chosen as one of the poets showcased in Oxford Poets 2010. In 2014 he was appointed Poet Laureate of Glasgow. He is the author of Killochries (2018) and Bale Fire (2019), both published by Polygon.

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ISBN 13 9781846975127
ISBN 10 1846975123
Title Black Cart
Author Jim Carruth
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Birlinn General
Year published 2019-10-10
Number of pages 96
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.