ISBN: 9781846976360

 

Far Field is the third and final book in The Auchensale Trilogy, a series of poetry cycles capturing the changing rural landscape of the West of Scotland. Following on from its predecessors Black Cart and Bale Fire, the book consists of three cycles bound together by footers.

 

A number of poems in the early part of the book are in response to paintings by the Glasgow Boys particularly those painted during their time spent in agricultural communities. Many of the poems are highly personal with a number about family members. These include a series of elegies for his late father. It also focuses on the present day looking to the challenges ahead for the family farm and that passing baton to the next generation.     

 

‘Deeply moving poems, as fierce as they are tender’ —Jane Clarke

‘I am in awe of his verbal power and the author’s fidelity to love, loss and community’ — David Morley

‘Moving, gripping and entertaining, the poems of The Auchensale Trilogy are also a source of new understanding of a crucial part of Scottish Life’ — The National

‘These poems with their immediacy, tonal variety and rich narrative are compelling and memorable. This trilogy is an elegy — a very clear-sighted and moving one.’ — Orbis

‘These poems are a recognition of the actualities of farming as it continues through families and generations, represented with total sympathy and understanding. It is hard to think of another body of poetry in English or Scots that does it as well.’ — Bernard O’Donoghue (The Dark Horse)

 

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/