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Economic migrant, 90s poet. 'Doyen of debris'. Neo-classical Aberdeenshire Jacobite. Gaeilge Sruth na Maoile agam. Novel, Stretto, published by CB Editions.

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Book Cover for: Stories by English Authors: Scotland, James Matthew Barrie

Stories by English Authors: Scotland

James Matthew Barrie
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Lost epic poems of Scotland, an occasional series: The Grameid, composed in Latin by John Philip on Viscount Dundee’s campaigns in the 1689 Jacobite uprising (cf Walter Scott’s Old Mortality) and translated in 1888 by one Alexander Murdoch: https://t.co/qzT29spm8L

Hardcover, 2017

$30.95$15.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Old Mortality: Complete

Walter Scott
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Lost epic poems of Scotland, an occasional series: The Grameid, composed in Latin by John Philip on Viscount Dundee’s campaigns in the 1689 Jacobite uprising (cf Walter Scott’s Old Mortality) and translated in 1888 by one Alexander Murdoch: https://t.co/qzT29spm8L

Paperback, 2015

$9.97$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Extinction

Thomas Bernhard
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In amid the 330 pages Murau devotes to execrating his home place and his family in Thomas Bernhard’s Extinction, space is duly found for his sisters’ inferior sock-darning skills. https://t.co/y4WQ1gHtpf

Paperback, 2011

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Shaler's Fish: Poems, Helen MacDonald

Shaler's Fish: Poems

Helen MacDonald
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One undoubtedly true statement about modern British poetry is that it is just the most crazy-unfortunate thing there hasn’t been a sequel to a Helen Macdonald’s Shaler’s Fish, one of the very best slim volumes published this century. https://t.co/mOJn6XiZIq

Paperback, 2017

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Quiet: Poems, Victoria Adukwei Bulley

Quiet: Poems

Victoria Adukwei Bulley
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Breathing spaces aplenty in Victoria Adukwei Bulley’s Quiet. https://t.co/aS2msfDYdH

Hardcover, 2023

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Some Alphabets

John Latta
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Some Alphabets, new from the excellent John Latta. https://t.co/KaTvosEVgr

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Faust

Sandeep Parmar
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New Sandeep Parmar Faust. https://t.co/zVPu59Rdz4

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Striking a Match in a Storm: New and Collected Poems

Andrew McNeillie
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Contents pages for the new issue of Poetry Ireland Review. I contribute a review of Andrew McNeillie’s New and Collected Poems. https://t.co/LqFd5LyJFK

Paperback, 2022

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Book Cover for: Hiroona: An Historical Romance in Poetic Form, Horatio Nelson Huggins

Hiroona: An Historical Romance in Poetic Form

Horatio Nelson Huggins
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The incident then became the subject of a 9000-line poem, called Hiroona, by Canon Horatio Nelson Huggins, published in a modern edition in 2015. I wonder if anyone reading this has seen or read a copy. https://t.co/VFjQH8KWsJ

Paperback, 2015

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The Bloater

Rosemary Tonks
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Suggestion that more novel introductions be written like this. Stewart Lee on Rosemary Tonks’ The Bloater. https://t.co/9sfmSIpzTM

Paperback, 2022

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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