Iain Crighton Smith : Collected Poems : Hardback in Dust Jacket 1992

Collected Poems

By Iain Crighton Smith

Published by Carcanet, Manchester, 1992. First Edition. Hardback book with dust jacket, 8vo, 398 pages.

CONDITION
A very good copy. The dust jacket remains unclipped and in very good condition with no tearing or damage. The book itself is in fine condition with no writing, names, marks or dog-earing. Overall a fine copy.

Iain Crichton Smith (1 January 1928 – 15 October 1998) was a Scottish poet and novelist, who wrote in both English and Gaelic. He was born in Glasgow, but moved to the Isle of Lewis at the age of two, where he and his two brothers were brought up by their widowed mother in the small crofting town of Bayble, which also produced Derick Thomson. Educated at the University of Aberdeen, Crichton Smith took a degree in English, and after completing his national service in the Army Educational Corps, went on to become a teacher. He taught in Clydebank, Dumbarton and Oban from 1952, retiring to become a full-time writer in 1977, although he already had many novels and poems published.

(location : Scotland 1)