{"product_id":"9780571268818-selected-poems-of-mick-imlah","title":"Selected Poems of Mick Imlah","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eMick Imlah's second and long-awaited collection \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Leader\u003c\/i\u003e was published to acclaim in 2008, shortly before his early death in January 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMick Imlah's second and long-awaited collection \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Leader\u003c\/i\u003e was published to acclaim in 2008, shortly before his early death in January 2009. The present retrospect connects the work of three decades, drawing upon Imlah's earlier full-length collection, \u003ci\u003eBirthmarks\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), but also including uncollected poems and previously unpublished work. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lost Leader\u003c\/i\u003e won the Forward Prize and revealed a poet of dazzling virtuosity, eloquence and subtlety - breaking through, as Imlah said of Edwin Muir (whose poems he selected in his last year) 'to a field of unforced imaginative fluency and an unexpected common cause'. Edited by Mark Ford and with an essay by Alan Hollinghurst, the \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e brings together the best work of a poet who can now be seen, with increasing clarity, as a 'lost leader' of Scottish poetry in our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57536541786486,"sku":"9780571268818","price":9.76,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_36345872.jpg?v=1774289171","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571268818-selected-poems-of-mick-imlah","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}