Description: This is the first book to take political devolution as an organising context for the presentation and discussion of main currents in contemporary Scottish poetry.
Brief description: Dr Matt McGuire Convenor (English Major) at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney. He has published widely on both Scottish and Irish Literature and he is the author of The Essential Guide to Contemporary Scottish Literature (2008). His work has appeared in the Edinburgh Review, Scottish Studies Review and The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature (2007).
Review Quotes: ...in its aim to engage students and scholars alike, this collection certainly achieves what it set out to do.--Eleanor Bell, University of Strathclyde "Scottish Literary Review"