Sparkling poems full of sensuous richness and linguistic inventiveness

- Edwin Morgan

“You don’t read [David’s] poems so much as live inside them. They offer a thoughtful and tender world that is utterly distinctive.”

These words by Richard Price describe David Kinloch’s fifth Carcanet collection, Greengown: a distillation of his earlier work, as well as new poems approaching a range of subjects including the fall of Isis, the recent pandemic, and love and friendship in an age of climate change.

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DAVID KINLOCH is from Glasgow where he grew up and was educated. He is the author of six collections of poetry, most published by Carcanet Press, the latest being In Search of Dustie-Fute (2017) which was shortlisted for the Saltire Prize. In 2022, David received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in recognition of his contribution to poetry.

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