Description
Canongate, 1991. 141 pages.
These poems draw on personal experience, Gaelic history, Scottish politics and the observations of life around the poet wherever he happens to be. There are snapshots taken in various parts of Europe, comments which are sometimes nostalgic but more often ironic and challenging.
There are sequences such as 'On Glasgow Streets' and one in which an old lady is both at the end and in the midst of life. But above all the poems capture the quality of living experience with a rare poignancy and richness.
Derick Thomson's own line-by-line translations appear on facing pages.
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