David
I share your admiration for Sidney Graham's poetry, I still have a first
edition copy of 'Malcolm Mooney's Land' which I bought when I was 15, one
question though, you say he made an 'early' decision to write in English.
Now as far as I know he wasn't a Gaelic speaker anyhow, to the best of my
knowledge Greenock isn't exactly populated with such, correct me if I'm
wrong, as that would be something about him I didn't know, but what I mean
is that English was his language anyhow.
All the Best
Dave
David Bircumshaw
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From: "David Howard" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 5:16 AM
Subject: Re: Presiding Spirits
Yes, Robin, W.S. Graham was a Scotsman - one who made an early and life-long
decision to write in English, in which language he took delicious liberties
with both Scotland's geography, shunting locations from his childhood
together in a defiant present. Occasionally Scottish slang attached to these
reconstituted places but it was always in support of the English which he
cajoled, entreated, objected to, turned this way and that....
David Howard
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