Never Mind the Captions
An Off-Beat Guide to Scotland's History and Heritage
Join Alistair Findlay on an off-beat tour of Scotland, from museum artefacts to public pieces of art, where he captures the humorous, passionate, and sometimes biting voices of some of our national treasures.
Alistair Findlay Alistair Findlay is the author of Shale Voices (Luath Press, 1999), a social history of the shale oil communities of West Lothian, and Sex, Death and Football (also Luath Press, 2003), which was his first collection of poetry. He has an MPhil in Modern Poetry in English from Stirling University. He works as a Social Work manager in Livingston for West Lothian Council, and resides in Bathgate.
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- Scotland’s iconic works of art are given a voice in unique, amusing and thought-provoking poems.
- The book is refreshingly lively and comical and might just inspire fresh visitors to Scotland’s treasures.
- Looks beneath the museum information card, juxtaposing how curators and scholars view these objects, and how the objects view themselves.
Publisher: Luath Press Ltd
Imprint: Luath Press Ltd
BISACs:
- POETRY / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh (POE005020)
