A Clamjamfray of Poets: A Tale of Literary Edinburgh, 1950-1985
- ISBN-10
- 0854110984
- ISBN-13
- 9780854110988
- Category
- Edinburgh (Scotland)
- Pages
- 138
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- The Saltire Society
- Author
- Stanley Roger Green
Description
Stanley Roger Green was a member of the circle of poets and writers surrounding Hugh MacDiarmid in the howfs and halls of post war Edinburgh. Sydney Goodsir Smith, Norman MacCaig, Tom Scott, George Mackay Brown and Robert Garioch were among them and the author offers a very personal account of their life and times.
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