Soloist Seeing above Glen Lyon a forester downwind the sound is drowned to that sweltering auditorium decades ago concerto; folk melody rising, the soloist |
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What the critics say
An outstanding sequence of poems. Grown-up, reflective, and unsentimental. One, 'Homecoming', is the best poem of married love by a modern Scot since Norman MacCaig hit his own heights with 'The Sinai Sort'. — Robert Nye, The Scotsman
This booklet contains 26 poems which are among his best, perhaps because they concern themselves with two subjects fundamental in his life: the power of music, and love based upon the deep trust and intimacy of marriage. — J. B. Pick, Markings
Stewart Conn engages with important themes, particularly love and death, with emotional authenticity... [He] has an uncanny ability to extract the latent power of image and narrative rather than add on inappropriate ‘significance’ – these are honest, wise, resonant, and well written poems. — Rob A. Mackenzie, Sphinx