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An Tuil

Antho­lo­gy of 20th cen­tu­ry Scot­tish Gae­lic verse

Poly­gon, 2002

822 d.

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For the first time, a full canon of twen­tieth-cen­tu­ry Scot­tish Gae­lic ver­se is available in one hand­so­me volu­me. An Tuil is a uni­que bilin­gu­al antho­lo­gy pro­vi­ding a much-nee­ded and impres­si­ve over­view of the high achie­ve­ment and dra­ma­tic deve­lo­p­ment of Gae­lic ver­se in the twen­tieth century.

One hundred Gae­lic poets of the cen­tu­ry are repre­sen­ted through over 350 poems, inclu­ding the work of Dòmhnall Ruadh Chorù­na, Donald Mac­in­ty­re, Sor­ley MacLean, Geor­ge Camp­bell Hay, Derick Thom­son, Iain Crich­ton Smith and Donald John Mac­Do­nald. The poet­ry deals with a ran­ge of sub­jects — come­dy and sati­re, love and war, reli­gi­on and poli­tics. The chro­no­lo­gi­cal lis­ting by poet, and exten­si­ve and detail­ed bio­gra­phies, amount to a stu­dy of the Gae­lic expe­ri­ence of the twen­tieth cen­tu­ry. Com­ple­te with an infor­ma­ti­ve intro­duc­tion by Ronald Black, this defi­ni­ti­ve antho­lo­gy pres­ents the Gae­lic view of the twen­tieth cen­tu­ry and offers a lite­ra­ry per­spec­ti­ve radi­cal­ly dif­fe­rent from exis­ting collections.

Ronald Black (Raghnall Macil­leD­huibh) is a Seni­or Lec­tu­rer in Cel­tic Stu­dies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Edin­burgh and Gae­lic Edi­tor of The Scots­man. He is a regu­lar broad­cas­ter, con­tri­bu­tes to a wide varie­ty of news­pa­pers and jour­nals, and most recent­ly co-edi­ted Cel­tic Con­nec­tions (1999). He lives in Pee­b­les, Scotland.

Stand­ort: AA


Gen­re: Beur­la, Gàidhlig, Leabhraiche­an, Mitt­le­re