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Jim Carruth


Paperback (B-format paperback UK (198x129mm)) | Oct 2019 | Polygon | 9781846975127 | 96pp | 195x130mm | RFB | AUD$39.01, NZD$60.25

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.

'It is a quiet, beautiful collection, poems punctuated by the names of fields, of grasses, and of disused dairy farms. I trust every word.' — Gillian Clarke