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Mick Imlah\u2019s first gathering of poems for some years, DIEHARD<\/em> derives from a larger, major work in hand called \u2018The Lost Leader\u2019. These are extraordinary poems of wit and high intelligence, executed with formidable technical skill and honest feeling. They are like a lost poetic history of Scotland brought to light, a modern ironic history, from AD 500, by way of a guided tour of Iona, to yesterday at a Dumfries bus depot, from Fergus Mor to John Smith, from Michael Scot to Walter Scott. Imlah\u2019s dramatising power, his eloquence, and gift for narration never fail him. Nor do his ear for the demotic and his delight in the comic.<\/p>\n

There are excursions here, military and other, to Italy, Spain and England, tracing with sardonic humour the fortunes of Scotland\u2019s sons and daughters, at home and abroad, through the centuries. Together the ten poems in this selection: \u2018I (AD 500)\u2019, \u2018Michael Scot\u2019, \u2018Braveheart\u2019, \u2018Selkirk\u2019, \u2018The Queen\u2019s Maries\u2019, \u2018The Honours\u2019, \u2018Diehard\u2019, \u2018London Scottish\u2019, \u2018The Four Marys of Melrose\u2019: probe into Edwin Muir\u2019s assertion (Imlah\u2019s epigraph) that \u2018… no poet in Scotland now can take as his inspiration the folk impulse that created the ballads, the people\u2019s songs, and the legends of Mary Stuart and Prince Charlie. He has no choice but to be at once more individual and more local.\u2019<\/p>\n

The individuality of Imlah\u2019s voice is not in question. But \u2018individual\u2019 and \u2018local\u2019 are hardly the measure of DIEHARD<\/em>. These poems belong in the great tradition of Scottish poetry and of poetry the world over.<\/p>\n

Limited edition of 200 copies.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

(Clutag Press, 2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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