Robert Garioch: Collected Poems

Garioch, Robert

ISBN 10: 1904598072 / ISBN 13: 9781904598077

Editore: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited, 2004

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• Titolo: Robert Garioch: Collected Poems
• Editore: Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1904598072
• ISBN 13: 9781904598077
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Like New
• Peso: 470 grammi

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Riassunto

Garioch's most well-known work is his satirical and humorous verse written in Scots, such as the Edinburgh Sonnets, Embro to the Ploy and The Canny Hen. These poems offer shrewd observations of the city and its inhabitants, and Garioch himself acknowledged the influence of another of Edinburgh's great poets, Robert Fergusson, in this respect. Garioch was also well-known as the translator into Scots of authors as disparate as Apollinaire, Pindar and the nineteenth-century Roman poet Guiseppe Belli, with whom he felt a particular affinity. He also wrote an autobiographical work, Two Men and a Blanket, in which he recounts his experiences as a prisoner-of-war in Italy and Germany in the 1940s. Towards the end of his life, he was Writer-in-Residence at Edinburgh University, and also worked as lexicographer and transcriber in the School of Scottish Studies, Edinburgh University. He died in 1981. This is the first major volume of Robert Garioch's poetry in over twenty years. Unlike the previous edition of his work (1983), it follows Garioch's own ordering of his poems, includes his own notes, as well as editorial explanations for readers unfamiliar with Garioch's Edinburgh background and

Informazioni sull?autore

Robert Garioch was born in Edinburgh in 1909. He studied English at Edinburgh University between 1927 and 1931. At this time he began to write poetry in Scots. Garioch published his first collection Seventeen Poems for 6d with the Gaelic poet Somhairle MacGill-Eain (Sorley MacLean) in 1940. This was followed by Chuckies on the Cairn (1949), Garioch's first full book of poetry. Garioch spent many years working as a schoolteacher in the London area, both before and after the Second World War. During the War, Garioch served as a signalman, and was captured and became a prisoner of war. His wartime experiences are recounted in prose in Two Men and a Blanket: Memoirs of Captivity (1975). He returned to Edinburgh in the late 1950s and took early retirement from teaching in the mid 1960s. Thereafter Garioch worked in the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh where he held a Writer's Fellowship from 1971 until 1973. He died in the spring of 1981. Robin Fulton was born in Arran and educated at Edinburgh University. He is a published poet, whose work has appeared in German, Spanish and Swedish, and is the translator of a number of modern Scandinavian poets, including Tomas Transtromer, Henrik Nordbrandt and Olav H. Hauge. He was editor of Lines Review between 1967 and 1976, and also edited the first edition of Garioch's complete works (1983) and A Garioch Miscellany (1986). He has lived in Norway for many years.