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and open floor spots
Last Thursday of the month
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Pure Contradiction
Ian Crockatt and Maureen Ross
Thursday 29 March 2012
6.30pm–8pm
Admission by donation
Ian Crockatt will read from Pure Contradiction, his new book of translations
of Rainer Maria Rilke (Arc Publications, 2012). Huntly poet Maureen Ross
will read from some of her recent work.
There will be the usual open floor opportunities.
This new bi-lingual selection by poet Ian Crockatt gathers poems from all periods
of Rilke's life and artistic development. By placing poems of similar themes or
modes of expression together instead of arranging them chronologically, underlying
themes which Rilke arrived at early in his life are illuminated. Crockatt's powerful
translations, with comprehensive introduction and notes, capture Rilke's blend of
crafted sensuality and inward-focused spiritual searching. Seasoned Rilke readers
as well as those to new to him will find fresh insights into this iconic European
writer's work.
Hardback £12.99 • Paperback £9.99
ISBN 978-1-906570-44-6
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Ian Crockatt lives with his ceramic artist wife Wenna on a small croft in
the North-East of Scotland, close to gannet-crowded sea cliffs and under the flight-path
of seasonally migrating geese. After many years employment as a social worker with
children and families, he is working on a PhD thesis at Aberdeen University, focusing
on the translation of Old Norse skaldic poetry.
He has published several collections of his own poetry, including Flood Alert
(Chapman Publications, 1996), Original Myths (Cruachan Publications, 1999),
The Crucifixion Bird (Northwords Folios, 2002), Blizzards of the Inner Eye
(Peterloo Press, 2003), The Lyrical Beast (Salix Publications, 2004), and
Skald: Viking poems (Koo Press, Aberdeen, 2009, reprinted 2011). Original
Myths, which includes etchings by the Scottish artist Paul Fleming, was
short-listed for the Saltire Society's Scottish Book of the Year Award in 2000.
He has been a prize winner in a number of national literary competitions, and was
awarded Writer's Bursaries by the Scottish Arts Council in 2004 and 2008.
He is currently preparing a collection of poems translated from the work of Rognvaldr
Kali Kolsson, a 12th century Earl of Orkney, as well as working on a new collection
of his own verse.
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Born and brought up in the North-East of Scotland, Maureen Ross has written
poetry from early childhood till the present day. Most of it ends up in the bucket.
However some of it has seen the light of day in recent years in Pushing Out the Boat
and Storm. Koo Press first published her chapbook Day Moth in 2006.
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Links
Visit the
Arc Publications
website.
Visit the
Koo Press
website.
Thanks to the staff of
Books and Beans
for hosting this event.
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2012 Programme
Thursday 26 January 2012
Gordon Campbell: Burns Scuppered
Thursday 23 February 2012
Bernard Briggs and Margaret Preston
Thursday 29 March 2012
Ian Crockatt and Maureen Ross
Thursday 26 April 2012
Paulina Vanderbilt: The Way
Archive
2012 Programme
2011 Programme
2010 Programme
Dead Good Poets
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