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Floating the Woods

Ken Cockburn author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Luath Press Ltd

Published:15th Mar '18

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The collection includes alphabet, calendar, list and found poems, as well as a sequence conceived as a ‘variable construction’, with one of many possible versions presented here. Many of the poems were written as collaborations with visual artists, and have appeared in booklets and exhibitions, and as public art works. Some were written as commissions, from organisations including The National Trust for Scotland and The Wordsworth Trust, or for occasions such as UNESCO World Heritage Day. Floating the Woods collects these poems at last into a single volume.

plenty wit, and enough sighs ALEC FINLAY

List the things that matter, and what is likely to appear are stories, and buildings, the birds that fly between them, the hills and streams and skies that surround them, the ordinary stuff of everyday life lived along side the felt presence of ancient recent history. Ken Cockburn's new collection captures all this... in a gloriously demotic voice that remains deeply immersed in the long traditions of poetry, he paints space, and place; and in his hands, language finds a mouth. JEN WEBB

ISBN: 9781912147335

Dimensions: 210mm x 135mm x 10mm

Weight: 157g

128 pages