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David Kinloch is one of the notable Scottish poets of his generation. His friend Edwin Morgan admired his sparkling poems full of sensuous richness and linguistic inventiveness; and Douglas Messerli declared, David Kinloch is surely one of the most innovative poets ever to come out of Scotland ... [his] readers must be prepared to take a long voyage through language, imagination, and space. While it isnt always easy, its always worth the trip. This is his fifth Carcanet collection. It includes a distillation of his earlier work, and new poems that delight and challenge. Morgan praised his success in the impossible genre, the prose poem, his elegies, his flytings. He has been an activist as well as a poet, founding the magazine Verse and establishing the first Scottish Writers Centre.
About the Author
About the Author
<p>David Kinloch is from Glasgow where he grew up and was educated. He is the author of six collections of poetry, most published by Carcanet Press, the latest being In Search of Dustie-Fute (2017) which was shortlisted for the Saltire Prize. He is Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde, and in 2008 he launched the inaugural Edwin Morgan International Poetry Competition, now the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award, which he continues to administer as the current Chair of The Edwin Morgan Trust.</p><br>
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