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20%OFFIain Crichton Smith - Deer on the High Hills: Selected Poems - 9781800170940 - 9781800170940
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Deer on the High Hills: Selected Poems

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Description for Deer on the High Hills: Selected Poems Paperback.
Growing up on the Isle of Lewis, Iain Crichton Smith spoke only Gaelic until he was five. But at school in Bayble and then Stornoway, everything had to be in English. Like many islanders before and since, his culture is divided: two languages, two histories entailing exile, a central theme of his poetry. His divided perspective sharply delineates the tyranny of history and religion, of the cramped life of small communities; it gives him a tender eye for the struggle of women and men in a world defined by denials. Deer on the High Hills: Selected Poems includes forty ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781800170940
SKU
9781800170940
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Ref
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About Iain Crichton Smith
Iain Crichton Smith was born in Glasgow in 1928, but his father died of TB before he could know him, and his fiercely Calvinist mother took him back to her native Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. He grew up with his two brothers in the village of Bayble, where he spoke Gaelic, and not until he began school ... Read more

Reviews for Deer on the High Hills: Selected Poems
'Over the years [his] poetry has increased in strangeness and beauty.' - TLS

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