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Clear Light contains 150 haiku bursting with Alan Spence's characteristic verve and wit.
Mythic and mesmerising, inspiring and hilarious, these poems shed clear light on the delights, hardships, breakthroughs and frustrations of the world of the momentary.
Simple in form, these haiku request a fresh look at the familiar and leave us reeling at how much in the world, from the exotic to the everyday, we have yet to observe.
Price: $17.00
Pages: 160
Publisher: Canongate Books
Imprint: Canongate Books
Publication Date:
04 August 2005
Trim Size: 5.87 X 4.33 in
ISBN: 9781841956640
Format: Paperback
Spence is a calm and necessary visionary ... This is Spence in essence, all openness of instinct and imagination.
Alan Spence is an award winning poet, playwright, novelist and short story writer. His awards include the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award, the Macallan Short Story Prize and the McVitie Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year. He is Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Aberdeen, where he is also Artistic Director of the annual WORD Festival.