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Selected Poems of Mick Imlah
Mick Imlah's second and long-awaited collection The Lost Leader was published to acclaim in 2008, shortly before his early death in January 2009. The present retrospect connects the work of three decades, drawing upon Imlah's earlier full-length collection, Birthmarks (1988), but also including uncollected poems and previously unpublished work. The Lost Leader won the Forward Prize and revealed a poet of dazzling virtuosity, eloquence and subtlety - breaking through, as Imlah said of Edwin Muir (whose poems he selected in his last year) 'to a field of unforced imaginative fluency and an unexpected common cause'. Edited by Mark Ford and with an essay by Alan Hollinghurst, the Selected Poems brings together the best work of a poet who can now be seen, with increasing clarity, as a 'lost leader' of Scottish poetry in our time.
The Lost Leader
Many of the poems in Mick Imlah's collection take on the most over-worn of Scottish myths as their apparent starting points: Saint Columba and the medieval wizard Michael Scot; the Wallace and the Bruce; Queen Mary and John Knox; the Bonnie Prince; and more.
Selected Poems
This selection of poems by Mick Imlah connects the work of three decades, drawing upon his earlier full-length collection, 'Birthmarks', but also including uncollected poems and previously unpublished work.
The New Penguin Book of Scottish Verse
This volume is the first anthology to offer a view over the entire history of Scottish poetry, extending from the sixth to the end of the 20th century, and representing each of its stylistic currents with clarity and verve.
Birthmarks
Birthmarks is Imlah's first collection of poems. Many are extended narratives whose themes are class, pretension, sexual self-deception and daily betrayals. The narrators include an aspiring Cockney, a deranged zoologist, a feckless racist and an unlucky foetus.
Selected Poems
The poetry of Edwin Muir (translator of Kafka) bears oblique witness to some of the most traumatic events of the 20th century. Mick Imlah's selection of the Orkney poet's work represents a thorough revaluation of his poetic achievement.
Selected Prose
As well as a highly-respected poet and editor, Mick Imlah (1956 - 2009) was one of the finest literary critics of his generation. With a preface by Mark Ford, this volume draws together a selection of Imlah's essays that reveal the formidable breadth of his unique literary insight, and the flair with which he communicated it.
Glyn Maxwell, Mick Imlah, Peter Reading
Collection of poems representative of the three poets' work
Beyond the Lyric
" Fiona Sampson provides a ... map of living British poets, grouped according to the kind of poetry they write. From the ... the Plain Dealers (Ruth Fainlight and Alan Brownjohn) to the baroque sensibilities of Dandies (Glyn Maxwell, Hugo Williams), we are introduced to the Oxford Elegists (John Fuller, Andrew Motion and Mick Imlah) and the New Formalists (Don Paterson, Mimi Khalvati), the Anecdoctalists (Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Armitage) and Mythopoesis (Robin Robertson)."--Publisher description
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