Creatures of the mind, rather than characters of fiction, inhabit poetry.
Creatures of the mind, rather than characters of fiction, inhabit poetry.
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The Overhaul by Kathleen Jamie Picador, £9.99 Estuary by Stewart Conn Mariscat Press, £5 Reviewed by Hayden Murphy
They are the breathing ellipses of imagination: brief encounters on the page but long-term residents in the mind. The splendid and specific pleasure in reading and rereading these two new collections by significant Scottish poets is that both are observers of the old made new, and all their creatures have character.
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