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Lines Review Editions #7
Camp one
A selection of poems, gathered largely from those written over the previous 10 years, arranged so that it might be regarded as constituting a single poem.
Many of the poems first appeared in Gallimaufry, Lines Review, Open Space, Scottish Poetry, The Scottish Review, Seagate, Birds (Stirling Gallery), and Poetry Nation Review.
Many of the poems first appeared in Gallimaufry, Lines Review, Open Space, Scottish Poetry, The Scottish Review, Seagate, Birds (Stirling Gallery), and Poetry Nation Review.
64 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1978
About the author
G.F. Dutton
21 booksGeoffrey Fraser Dutton was an English-born scientist who lived in Scotland for most of his life. He was a mountaineer, poet, wild-water swimmer, and the creator and chronicler of a remarkable garden on the Highland boundary fault.
Dutton's studies in biological science took him to Edinburgh in 1949. He crossed paths with figures of the Scottish Renaissance in the 1950s – their famous haunt, Milne's Bar, was also the pub of preference of the Scottish Mountaineering Club – but it was not until 1973 that, with the help of Anne Stevenson, he put forward his poems for publication. In the austerity of their language, they are reflective of the landscapes which he found in his adopted homeland.
He also wrote books on wild-water swimming (Swimming Free (1972)) mountaineering (The Ridiculous Mountains (1990) and Nothing so Simple as Climbing (1993)).
In the late 1950s, Dutton and his wife Elizabeth acquired a house and eight acres of land in Perthshire, north of Blairgowrie. It was a piece of steep, rugged hillside, down which tumbled a burn through a deep gorge; and there he created what he called a "marginal" garden. Dutton managed this garden single-handedly. And between 1988 and 1994 he wrote a succession of articles about it in The Garden, the journal of the Royal Horticultural Society. He also wrote a book based on these articles, Some Branch Against the Sky: the practice and principles of marginal gardening (1997).
Dutton's studies in biological science took him to Edinburgh in 1949. He crossed paths with figures of the Scottish Renaissance in the 1950s – their famous haunt, Milne's Bar, was also the pub of preference of the Scottish Mountaineering Club – but it was not until 1973 that, with the help of Anne Stevenson, he put forward his poems for publication. In the austerity of their language, they are reflective of the landscapes which he found in his adopted homeland.
He also wrote books on wild-water swimming (Swimming Free (1972)) mountaineering (The Ridiculous Mountains (1990) and Nothing so Simple as Climbing (1993)).
In the late 1950s, Dutton and his wife Elizabeth acquired a house and eight acres of land in Perthshire, north of Blairgowrie. It was a piece of steep, rugged hillside, down which tumbled a burn through a deep gorge; and there he created what he called a "marginal" garden. Dutton managed this garden single-handedly. And between 1988 and 1994 he wrote a succession of articles about it in The Garden, the journal of the Royal Horticultural Society. He also wrote a book based on these articles, Some Branch Against the Sky: the practice and principles of marginal gardening (1997).
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