Dream State: The New Scottish Poets

by Donny O'Rourke (Editor), Meg Bateman (Contributor), John Burnside (Contributor)

A revised and updated edition of the collection of Scottish poetry. The new edition has been expanded to take account of new work by the existing contributors and new talents which have emerged. The introduction by Daniel O'Rourke sets a context for the collection. Includes a biography and photograph of contributors.

Genres: Poetry

344 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Donny O'Rourke is a Scottish poet, songwriter, film maker, critic, editor, teacher and translator.

His poetry collections include The Waistband and other poems (Polygon, 1997) and On a Roll: a Jena notebook (Mariscat, 2001), and with Richard Price he published a pamphlet of versions of modern French lyrics, Eftirs/Afters (Au Quai, 1996). A dual language collection resulting from his time in Nuremberg was published in 2005: Aus dem Wartesaal der Poesie/From Poetry’s Waiting Room.

Reviews

[Lev · Rating 3 out of 5]

I finished this a couple of months ago, or finished it as much as poetry can be finished, I guess. I liked it! Wasn't into all the poets, but found some interesting ones, some that are super obscure too, so yay for some hipster cred, but nay for not being able to find shit about/by them :( Because I'm gay trash, David Kinloch was one of my faves. Knowing myself, it's pretty unlikely I'll actually manage to get back to this review, but if I do, I'd go through the notes I took and list some more faves, etc. One day maybe!

[Ronnie Lee · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some excellent poets and poems are featured here, but I didn't find the introduction or the little blurbs by the writers to be very useful or interesting.

[scarlettraces · Rating 4 out of 5]

Made me feel like... the 90s were a very long time ago.