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Far Field

Far Field

by Jim Carruth

Imprint: Polygon

96 Pages, 5.1 x 7.8 in

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9781846976360
May 2023
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Far Field is the third and final book in The Auchensale Trilogy, a series of poetry cycles capturing the changing rural landscape of the West of Scotland. Following on from its predecessors Black Cart and Bale Fire, the book consists of three cycles bound together by footers.

A number of poems in the early part of the book are in response to paintings by the Glasgow Boys particularly those painted during their time spent in agricultural communities. Many of the poems are highly personal with a number about family members. These include a series of elegies for his late father. It also focuses on the present day looking to the challenges ahead for the family farm and that passing baton to the next generation.

Jim Carruth was born in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, and grew up on his family’s farm near Kilbarchan. His first chapbook collection Bovine Pastoral was published in 2004. Since then he has brought out a further five chapbooks and an illustrated fable. He has won both the James McCash poetry competition and the McLellan Poetry Prize and was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2009. He was chosen as one of the poets showcased in Oxford Poets 2010. In 2014 he was appointed Poet Laureate of Glasgow.

I am in awe of his verbal power and the author’s fidelity to love, loss, and community. This is a book of land and landscapes, and the gift of being alive to them' ~David Morley

I cannot think of any other collection which so intimately and sensitively documents a beloved corner of a beloved country and the folk who farmed there, through all their seasons and weathers' ~John Glenday

In deeply moving poems, as fierce as they are tender, Carruth honours a way of life that is threatened or already lost... Every line is as honed as the landscape, evoking the harrowing, relentless aspects of farming as well as the meaning and beauty to be found in everyday routines' ~Jane Clarke

With his latest poetry collection, Glasgow Makar Jim Carruth brings his Auchensale Trilogy to an elegiac yet also cautiously optimistic close' ~Roger Cox, The Scotsman

Moving, gripping and entertaining, the poems of The Auchensale Trilogy are also a source of new understanding of a crucial part of Scottish life' ~Andrew Roberts, The National

Written out of personal experience and family history, these compelling, absorbing books exploring myth, pain, loss, and joy are powerful and tender' ~Maria Isakova-Bennett