Life Sentence
More Poems Chiefly in the Scots Language
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About the Book:
We haud the universe athin oor grup, Syne life cams pourin frae the biro's tip, An thon primordial urge we hae tae tell, Comes spillin oot, frae whaur? Nae man can tell - Fir life is whit we aa are sentenced tae.
Rab Wilson can find poetry everywhere in life; in a shopping trolley in the river, a trip to the bookie's, or a catastrophic earthquake. In this lichtsome new collection, he digs into literature ('Where Burns Has Wrote, In Rhyming Blether...'), history ('Rab Bruce, Drug Baron, Addresses his Troops'), terrorism ('Israeli Bombs at Prestwick') and social commentary ('Misanthrope in the Pound-Shoap'). Written in Scots and English, the language of the poems is versatile and expressive, adding texture, humour or earthiness to everyday events. Whether taking a sly poke at other people's pretensions or reflecting on world peace, Rab's Life Sentence never weighs too heavily on his shoulders.
About the Author:
RAB WILSON is one of Scotland’s most accomplished poets. He was born in New Cumnock, Ayrshire in 1960. After an engineering apprenticeship with the National Coal Board he left the pits following the miner’s strike of 1984–5 to become a psychiatric nurse. As a Scots poet, his work appears regularly in The Herald, Chapman, Lallans and Markings magazines and he is the author of a number of highly praised volumes of poetry and a Burns scholar.
Rab has performed his work at the Edinburgh Festival, the StAnza poetry festival at St Andrews, the ‘Burns an a’ That Festival’ at Ayr and has been ‘Bard of the Festival’ at Wigtown, Scotland’s National Booktown. Additionally Rab is a previous winner of the McCash Poetry Prize and was ‘Robert Burns Writing Fellow – In Reading Scots’ for Dumfries and Galloway Region. He has worked with the artist Calum Colvin on a book of responses to Burns and he is the Scriever in Residence for the National Trust for Scotland based at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum in Ayr. Currently a member of the National Committee for the Scots Language Resource Centre, Rab regularly attends the parliamentary Cross Party Group for Scots language held at Holyrood. He is a ‘weel-kent’ advocate for Scots writing. He lives in New Cumnock with his wife Margaret and daughter Rachel.