Silver: An Aberdeen Anthology
- ISBN-10
- 1846971357
- ISBN-13
- 9781846971358
- Series
- Silver
- Category
- Aberdeen (Scotland)
- Pages
- 170
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Birlinn Publishers
- Author
- Alan Spence
Description
This book of poems about Aberdeen includes work by Edwin Morgan, Iain Crichton Smith, Thomas Hardy, Lord Byron, Stuart Conn, Sheena Blackhall, and many other writers old and new. Aberdeen is known as the city of granite, the city of oil, the city of fish, and the city of high house-prices, but Aberdeen has many different faces--some of them charming, and some of them severe. This collection of poems explores the life and culture of the city as seen by poets through the centuries, from Norse and Medieval views of Aberdeen to previously unpublished poems by contemporary writers.
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