Intimate Voices Selected Works 1965

by Tom Leonard

Paperback in very good condition. Covers are slightly scuffed and sunned, with light creases along the spine sides. Edges and corners are a little bumped and rubbed. Covers are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW

Genres: Poetry

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Tom Leonard (born 1944) was a Scottish poet, writer and critic. He is best known for his poems written in the Glaswegian dialect of Scots, particularly his Six Glasgow Poems and The Six O'Clock News. His work frequently dealt with the relationship between language, class and culture.

Leonard also wrote plays, sound poetry, political polemic and a biography of the 19th-century Scottish poet James ‘B.V.’ Thomson, Places of the Mind.

Reviews

[Marbenele · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wurkn class culture

[Cameron Wilson · Rating 5 out of 5]

ahbsa lootly class

[Brittany · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite unique poems that play with the idea of speech and pronunciation. Being as they are written supposedly in a Glaswegean accent and I am American, they were especially interesting to see how my reading of them differed from those who are more familiar with that accent.

[Lysergius · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not many poets can write vernacular verse and get away with it. Leonard manages to pull it off and also say things which have a universal appeal.

[Tom Collingridge · Rating 5 out of 5]

Without hesitation, one of my 7 desert island poetry books.

[Ally · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great poems written in the Glasgow vernacular. A lot of them are very funny.