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ISBN 978-1-77171-394-8
Replay: 1943-1965 (poetry) 23.95
published 2020 92 pages
The poems range widely over the personal – memories of Stephen Scobie's
family, especially of his father, and of the tangled glories of several
adolescent love affairs – and the public world – from a despotic namesake
in post-War Greece to a sensational murder trial in 1950s Glasgow. What
remains throughout is Scotland – the land itself, its history and culture
– which the retrospect of 50 years has only brought into the sharper focus
of this... Replay.
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ISBN 978-1-77171-105-0
The Griffin in the Griffin's Wood (fiction) 29.95
published 2016 340 pages
The government of the so-called German Democratic Republic is stumbling
through the last months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. But in the
shadows, the old antagonisms continue between spies and counter-spies,
double and triple agents. And a young Canadian intelligence officer, Frank
Carpenter, finds himself drawn into a mystery which leads him to a bizarre
and personal form of German Reunification. |
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ISBN 978-1-77171-121-0
Stanzas (poetry) 23.95
published 2015 86 pages
Stanzas by Governor General Award-winning poet Stephen Scobie
consists largely of poems written in the traditional rhyming stanzas of
the ballad tradition. But if the form is restricted, the range is wide:
from artistic tributes to historical reflections, from fictional stories
to family remembrance. |
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ISBN 978-1-897430-32-3
RLS: At the World’s End (poetry) 19.95
published 2009 88 pages
In RLS: At the World’s End, award-winning Canadian poet
Stephen Scobie charts an imagined course through Stevenson’s writings
and travels. Scobie, himself a Scot living abroad, presents an extended
dialogue between his own, contemporary voice and a poetic image of RLS. |
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ISBN
1-896860-51-6 And Forget My Name: A speculative biography of Bob Dylan
(poetry) 12.95
published 1999 78 pages
And Forget My Name concerns the life of Robert Zimmerman, the
youth who would later be known as Bob Dylan. Through poetic interpretations
and speculations, Scobie discovers a deeper truth behind one of the great
living enigmas of our time. |