Accent O The Mind
The joy, the pain, the fear, the anger and the shame - topical and contemporary, and mostly in vibrant Scots, this is Scottish poetry at its best. 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 follows on from Rab Wilson's ground-breaking translation into Scots of the Persian epic, The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam, with a Scots translation of selected Horace satires. It also includes sonnets inspired by the Miners' Strike of 1984-85; poems he scribed as a Wigtown Bard; and the fascinating results of being twinned with his local MSP. This inspirational new collection consolidates Rab Wilson's position as one of Scotland's most charismatic poets and plays a part in the reinvigoration of the Scots language in modern Scottish society.
| Weight | 0.220000 |
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| ISBN13/Barcode | 9781905222322 |
| ISBN10 | 1905222327 |
| Author | RAB WILSON |
| Binding | Paperback |
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| Date Published | 1st April 2006 |
| Report Date | 2026/03/31 |
| Pages | 168 |
| Publisher | Luath Press |
About the book:
The joy, the pain, the fear, the anger and the shame - topical and contemporary, and mostly in vibrant Scots, this is Scottish poetry at its best. 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 follows on from Rab Wilson's ground-breaking translation into Scots of the Persian epic, The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam, with a Scots translation of selected Horace satires. It also includes sonnets inspired by the Miners' Strike of 1984-85; poems he scribed as a Wigtown Bard; and the fascinating results of being twinned with his local MSP. This inspirational new collection consolidates Rab Wilson's position as one of Scotland's most charismatic poets and plays a part in the reinvigoration of the Scots language in modern Scottish society.
Reviews:
Our traditional language could hardly have a more eloquent exponent. LESLEY DUNCAN