ISBN: 9781846975127

 

Almost eighteen years in the making, this collection is a love poem to a rural community in Scotland. The freshness of its language brings the daily grind, its joys and harsh realities, to vivid life; its final elegies form a moving testament to a lost generation of family, friends, farmers and farms.

 

‘Carruth’s poetry is important to Scotland which defines in literature too much as an urban nation’ — Douglas Dunn

‘It is a quiet, beautiful collection. I trust every word’ — Gillian Clarke

‘Deeply felt act of defiance’ — Scotland on Sunday

‘A remarkably powerful and moving collection’ — Herald

‘Tender and affecting poetry shot through with humour and not a little mischief, moving lightly across different forms, a place I didn’t want to leave.’ —Magma

 

Jim Carruth is a poet, editor and awards and events programmer. He is the co-founder and chair of St Mungo’s Mirrorball and has been an artistic advisor for StAnza. He is the current Poet Laureate of Glasgow. His poetry has won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship; the James McCash poetry competition, the McLellan Poetry Prize and the Callum Macdonald prize.

​He has brought out four full collections and nine chapbooks. Killochries was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year, the Seamus Heaney Centre For Poetry Prize and the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize. Far Field came out in 2023 and was the final part of the acclaimed trilogy following on from Black Cart and Bale Fire.

 

https://www.jimcarruth.co.uk/

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