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Selected Poems

Imprint: Carcanet Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press
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Paperback (128 pages)

(Pub. Jan 1985)

9780856355974

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Iain Crichton Smith was born in Glasgow in 1928, but his father died of TB before he could know him, and his fiercely Calvinist mother took him back to her native Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. He grew up with his two brothers in the village of Bayble, where ... read more

Praise for Iain Crichton Smith 'Crichton Smith's work abounds in variety'

David Hackbridge Johnson, The High Window

'The wealth of the poems it contains is extraordinary'

Poetry Salzburg

'Over the years [his] poetry has increased in strangeness and beauty. He is a poet of his own discontents, but one who has submitted his unrest to the demands of the imagination.'
Times Literary Supplement

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Selected Poems Iain Crichton Smith Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (128 pages) (Pub. Jan 1985) 9780856355974 Out of Stock Author Reviews Iain Crichton Smith was born in Glasgow in 1928, but his father died of TB before he could know him, and his fiercely Calvinist mother took him back to her native Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. He grew up with his two brothers in the village of Bayble, where ... read more Praise for Iain Crichton Smith 'Crichton Smith's work abounds in variety' David Hackbridge Johnson, The High Window 'The wealth of the poems it contains is extraordinary' *Poetry Salzburg* 'Over the years [his] poetry has increased in strangeness and beauty. He is a poet of his own discontents, but one who has submitted his unrest to the demands of the imagination.' Times Literary Supplement	Share this... Quick Links Carcanet Poetry Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Lives and Letters PN Review Video Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years! The Carcanet Blog One Little Room: Peter McDonald read more Collected Poems: Mimi Khalvati read more Invisible Dog: Fabio Morbito, translated by Richard Gwyn read more Dante's Purgatorio: Philip Terry read more Billy 'Nibs' Buckshot: John Gallas read more Emotional Support Horse: Claudine Toutoungi read more
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