Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
The Shell of Stone
The Shell of Stone is Ian Nimmo White's third book-length collection of poetry. The author being a keen genealogist, many of these poems resonate with his passion for heritage, some marking major events of the twentieth century, with other poems travelling even further back to previous centuries. The author also touches on the inevitable passing of time and his own ageing, which he addresses with some mischief and fun. While there is always a presence of nostalgia, sometimes sadness, White balances this with poems about the joy of having grandchildren, observations of wildlife and the ever-increasing amount of time he is spending in his garden. The reader is left with feelings of respect for the past together with hope for the future. White's poetry is laced with warmth and humanity, not to mention a good helping of his native Scottish humour. The experience gained in a four-decade-long career in community service has given the poet a priceless knowledge and understanding of the lives of ordinary men and women, who will be able to relate to these poems and enjoy them.
Symmetry
Symmetry - a collection of works (1995-2007) of the established Scottish poet, Ian Nimmo White, poems in both English and Scots of great warmth, humour and compassion.
Of Love and Sanity
In 1943, Bernard Markham, a young soldier and really only a boy, volunteers to fight with the Chindits, a special allied force flown into Burma to disrupt the seemingly unstoppable advance of the Imperial Japanese Army. He doesn't fully realise the enormity of what he has let himself in for, and although taking part in initial successes, within only a few weeks is captured by the enemy, interrogated and tortured. He manages to escape and make a perilous journey back to safety in British held India, but he is badly damaged, not only physically but emotionally, and in England after the conclusion of World War Two, he suffers a total breakdown. Despite all the ordeals he has gone through, he recuperates and turns it all around by dedicating the rest of his life to disadvantaged young people. In a sense, having lost his own youth to horrific conflict, he is determined to champion future youth. Of Love and Sanity is the story of a triumph of the human spirit, accomplished on the back of unimaginable suffering.
Black on White
None
Standing Back
None
The Colour of Black & White
This is a collection of poems of love, death, iconic figures, Jungian archetypes, animus figures with strong outlines, and harsh comfort.
First Presbyterian Church, Edmonton
This book is the story of the congregation of the First Presbyterian Church, Edmonton and the people who made it such a fascinating religious community. The colourful characters, the saints and sinners, the good and the worthy, the weak and the domineering, and portrayed in a very caring fashion. The dignity and worth of the human spirit along with the foibles of human nature are laid bare in this portrayal of a congregation's struggle to assert a dominant role within the Presbyterian, and Edmonton, communities. With the arrival of the Presbyterian Church in Canada in what latter became the province of Alberta and the formation of the congregation in 1881, the influence and prestige of membe...
Bucket of Frogs
'New Writing Scotland' is the principal forum for poetry and short fiction in Scotland today. 'Bucket of Frogs' is the latest collection of contemporary literature, drawn from a wide cross-section of Scottish culture and society.
Cencrastus
None
