Ebook: The Touch of Time: New & Selected Poems

The Touch of Time is a comprehensive retrospective of the work of one of Scotland's leading poets drawing on ten previous books published over five decades. The new work here pursues the themes of his earlier Bloodaxe collections Stolen Light: Selected Poems (1999), Ghosts at Cockcrow (2005) and The Breakfast Room (2010). With what Professor Carla Sassi sees as 'his thoughtful attention to small details, his redeeming gaze, his formal control of impeccably constructed verses, and his deep and warm humanity', he movingly explores everyday events and revelations, and how - like our lives and tho.;Cover; Description; Title Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; I; Todd; Ferret; Farm; Harelaw; Country Dance; Ayrshire Farm; Todd; Reading Matter; Stoats in the Sunlight; The Shed; Forebears; On Craigie Hill; Craggy Country; Family Tree; Farm Funeral; II; Afternoon; Thunder in the Air; Under Creag Mhor; In a Simple Light; Setting; Margins; The Chinese Tower; Old Actor; North Uist; Driving Through Sutherland; Summer, Assynt; At Coruisk; Marriage a Mountain Ridge; Orkney Shore; The Predators; III; The Lilypond; Kilchrenan; A Sense of Order; Portents; After the Party; Family Visit.