The Chagall Winnocks

Wi Ither Scots Poems and Ballants O Europe

Tom Hubbard (Autor)

Media-Kombination

128 Seiten

2011
Grace Note Publications
978-1-907676-03-1 (ISBN)

Infos

From the forests of Finland to the plain of Lombardy, from a Scottish beach to a river island in Hungary, Tom Hubbard deploys the riches of the Scots language to explore that tragicomic space we call Europe. The poems are variously tender and mischievous in their treatment of our all-too-human foibles - ' Scots is a language rich in verbal music. Tom Hubbard's superb performance of the poetry can be heard on the audio-recorded CD. A resource glossary is also included in the book.

Autor

Tom Hubbard is a literary scholar and poet who writes in both English and Scots. He became the first Librarian of the Scottish Poetry Library, Edinburgh, from 1984 to 1992. He subsequently taught at universities in France, USA, Hungary and Scotland. In the spring semester of 2011 he is the Lynn Wood Neag Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of English at the University of Connecticut. His previous poetry collections include: Four Fife Poets (with John Brewster, William Hershaw and the late Harvey Holton; Aberdeen University Press), Tak 5 / Tak 50 (a CD; with William Hershaw, Angus Martin, David C. Purdie and David Purves; Scotsoun), Scottish Faust: Poems and Ballads of Eldritch Lore (Kettillonia), From Soda Fountain to Moonshine Mountain: American Poems (Akros), Peacocks and Squirrels: Poems of Fife (Akros). His novel, Marie B. (Ravenscraig Press), based on the life of the Ukrainian painter Marie Bashkirtseff, was long-listed for the Saltire of the year award. His non-fictional books are Seeking Mr Hyde: Studies in Robert Louis Stevenson, Symbolism, and the Pre-Modern (Peter Lang), The Integrative Vision: Poetry and the Visual Arts in Baudelaire, Rilke, and MacDiarmid (Akros) and Michael Scot: Myth and Polymath (Akros). He has edited or co-edited many other publications over the past three decades.

Inhalt

Contents TALES O A STRAVAIGER xi SCOTLAND Mephistophelean Ballant-Scherzo on ane Fife Legend 3 FINLAND The Lass Come Back Frae Trystin Wi Her Jo 7 DENMARK Homage til Carl Nielsen 11 Kierkegaard's Faust 15 BELGIUM Watter o the Auld Canals 19 Leuven Europa 21 FRANCE Oor Burgh 24 The Erseboond 26 The Colourist 29 SPAIN Sonnet 33 ITALY Sonnet 37 Twa Poems on the Commedia dell'Arte: Arlecchino o Bergamo 38 1. Arlecchino Ironicomalinconico 39 2. The Angel o Duende 42 The Arlecchino Phenomenon 44 GERMANY The Legend o the Leddy Richmodis 49 The Chagall Winnocks in Sanct Stephen's Kirk, Mainz 51 The Speirits 53 Fable o the Bird, the Cat, and the Pibroch 54 SWITZERLAND Schaffhausen Satori 57 The Emmick and the Gresslowper 60 Tamangur 63 AUSTRIA Fir My Cat 67 HUNGARY The Legend o the Leddy Margret 71 Minority Status 73 POLAND The Lyart Laird 77 Gdansk December 81 RUSSIA Raskolnikov 85 UKRAINE Scheherazade 89 WORDLEET / GLOSSARY 91 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 111 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON THE POEMS 112

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.5.2011
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: Scots
• Maße: 138 x 180 mm
• Gewicht: 220 g
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• ISBN-10: 1-907676-03-1 / 1907676031
• ISBN-13: 978-1-907676-03-1 / 9781907676031
• Zustand: Neuware