Chiels & Quines
This third collaboration from AC Clarke, Sheila Templeton and Maggie Rabatski, is an unfinished project, cut short by Sheila Templeton’s too-early death. But there is nothing unfinished about the poems we do have here: they are bursting with life and wit, with knowledge and opinion and human sympathy, giving us sidelong looks and some weel-kent figures from Scottish history and engaging portraits of some who should be better-kent; all called up with unobtrusive poetic skill – the most difficult kind – in English, Scots and Gaelic.
Topped and tailed with spare, moving elegies for Sheila from her two colleagues, this is a rich and rewarding volume that will leave you educated, entertained, and heart-sorry that there won’t be another like it.
Judith Taylor
Poet and Editor
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