Glasgow Zen

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Alan Spence

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A superb new collection of haiku and other short poetic forms on the theme of Glasgow - its people, landscape, culture. As always, Spence is uniquely illuminating, witty and delightful. Incorporating some of the poems which appeared decades ago in the much sought-after collection of the same title, Glasgow Zen includes mostly new material from this highly popular and exquisite poet. Below are two extracts from the title poem: On the oneness of self and universe IT'S AW WAN TAE ME On identity in difference SIX AN HAUF A DOZEN

Author Biography:

Alan Spence is an award winning poet, playwright, novelist and short story writer. His awards include the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award, the Macallan Short Story Prize and the McVitie Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year. He is Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Aberdeen, where he is also Artistic Director of the annual WORD Festival.

Release date NZ

August 19th, 2002

Author

Alan Spence

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Edition

Main

Illustrations

Pages

144

Dimensions

111x148x8

ISBN-13

9781841952932

Product ID

1669944

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