Accent O the Mind

Presents Scottish poetry, the joy, the pain, the fear, the anger, and the shame. From Somerfield supermarket to Morris Dancing, text messaging and Buckfast to giving a voice to miners, this book covers the variety of modern Scottish life through honest, often humorous poetry. It also includes sonnets inspired by the Miners' Strike of 1984-85.

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The joy, the pain, the fear, the anger and the shame - topical and contemporary, and mostly in vibrant Scots, this is Scottish poetry at its best. Encompassing history, text messaging, politics, asylum-seeking hedgehogs and Buckfast, Rab Wilson covers the variety of modern Scottish life through refreshingly honest and often humorous poetry. "Accent O the Mind" follows on from Rab Wilson's groundbreaking translation into Scots of the Persian epic, "The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam", with a Scots translation of Horace satires. It also includes sonnets inspired by the Miners' Strike of 1984-85; poems he scribed as a Wigtown Bard; and the results of being twinned with his local MSP. This inspirational new collection consolidates Rab Wilson's position as one of Scotland's leading poets and plays a part in the reinvigoration of the Scots language in modern Scottish society.