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Brian Lavelle has moved

I finally found an inexpensive copy of George Mackay Brown’s early (1965) volume of poems, The Year of the Whale. The cover design conjures another era altogether, one when—it seems—the publishing of “living” poets was something to be remarked upon.

The Year of the Whale contains one of my favourite of Brown’s poems, The Poet, the text of which is in the 2nd image. I've always thought those last four lines truly haunting.

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Very nice looking book Brian... interesting to compare it with Ian Hamilton Finlay's poem The Dancers Inherit the Party, from a few years earlier.