Being a Boy |
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| Author:
| Crockatt, Ian |
| ISBN: | 978-1-326-91922-1 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2015 |
| Publisher: | Lulu Press, Inc.
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | Contact Supplier contact
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Book Description:
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A series of 20 'early-memory' poems by award winning poet Ian Crockatt. The poems' vividly captured pictures focus on the intensity and physicality of a child's outdoor life in a Scottish village in the 1950s. The struggles and joys of boyhood in a large family, village life from a boy's perspective, friendship, fights, stirrings of sexual feelings - they are all here, brought to life in open, dynamically rhythmic verse which is both passionate about detail and satisfyingly universal....
More DescriptionA series of 20 'early-memory' poems by award winning poet Ian Crockatt. The poems' vividly captured pictures focus on the intensity and physicality of a child's outdoor life in a Scottish village in the 1950s. The struggles and joys of boyhood in a large family, village life from a boy's perspective, friendship, fights, stirrings of sexual feelings - they are all here, brought to life in open, dynamically rhythmic verse which is both passionate about detail and satisfyingly universal. Not to be missed!