An entertaining gathering of Dilys Rose’s witty, expertly crafted and sharply observant poems: on birds, clothes, various Scottish daftnesses and more.
“We really should be more nocturnal. Roosting at dusk – think what we’re missing: mole tartare, spatchcocked frog, stoat hash? You name it, somebody’s prepped it. The shops are long shut, the coach parties toddled off. Bobble hat hikers and twitchers are holed up in B&Bs or the pub. The night is ours. How’s about we break with tradition and pick up a carryout – fresh kill, still warm?”
Excerpt from Stone the Crows
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 | Dilys RoseDilys Rose is a novelist, short story writer, poet and librettist. She has published eleven books, most recently a novel, Pelmanism (2014). She also enjoys collaborating with visual artists and composers. Her most recent collaboration Watching Over You, is a song cycle specially written for Karen Cargill, with music composed by Rory Boyle and performed by Red Note Ensemble in 2015. She has received various awards and fellowships for her work, including the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Prize, the McCash poetry prize, two Scottish Arts Council Book Awards, a Society of Authors’ Travel Award, a Unesco City of Literature Fellowship and a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. She has been shortlisted for, amongst others, the Saltire Scottish Book of the Year Award,(Red Tides), the McVitie’s Scottish Writer of the Year, (Red Tides) The S.A.C./Sundial award (Bodywork) and nominated for the Impac award (Pest Maiden). Her third novel, Unspeakable (w.t) is due out in spring 2017. |