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Stewart Conn introduces and reads a selection of poems from various times in his life, all included in his retrospective, THE TOUCH OF TIME: NEW & SELECTED POEMS (2014), published by Bloodaxe Books. Stewart Conn was born in Glasgow in 1936 and grew up in Ayrshire, the setting for much of his early poetry. Since 1977 he has lived in Edinburgh, where until 1992 he was based as BBC Scotland’s head of radio drama. He was Edinburgh’s first Makar or Poet Laureate in 2002-05. The poems he reads here are ‘Todd’, ‘Ferret’, ‘Driving Through Sutherland’, ’Tremors’, ‘Under the Ice’, ‘Visiting Hour’, ‘Carpe Diem’ and 'The Breakfast Room', his response to Pierre Bonnard's painting, and in particular to the figure of the artist's wife Marthe at the very edge of the painting. His Bonnard poem is in three parts: the first in the voice of the poet, the second by Marthe and the third by Bonnard himself. Pamela Robertson-Pearce filmed Stewart Conn reading his poems at his home in Edinburgh in June 2010. This film is from the DVD-anthology IN PERSON: WORLD POETS, filmed and edited by Pamela Robertson-Pearce and Neil Astley (Bloodaxe Books, 2017). For more details please see bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/the-touch-of-time-1093
Stewart Conn introduces and reads a selection of poems from various times in his life, all included in his retrospective, THE TOUCH OF TIME: NEW & SELECTED POEMS (2014), published by Bloodaxe Books. Stewart Conn was born in Glasgow in 1936 and grew up in Ayrshire, the setting for much of his early poetry. Since 1977 he has lived in Edinburgh, where until 1992 he was based as BBC Scotland’s head of radio drama. He was Edinburgh’s first Makar or Poet Laureate in 2002-05. The poems he reads here are ‘Todd’, ‘Ferret’, ‘Driving Through Sutherland’, ’Tremors’, ‘Under the Ice’, ‘Visiting Hour’, ‘Carpe Diem’ and 'The Breakfast Room', his response to Pierre Bonnard's painting, and in particular to the figure of the artist's wife Marthe at the very edge of the painting. His Bonnard poem is in three parts: the first in the voice of the poet, the second by Marthe and the third by Bonnard himself. Pamela Robertson-Pearce filmed Stewart Conn reading his poems at his home in Edinburgh in June 2010. This film is from the DVD-anthology IN PERSON: WORLD POETS, filmed and edited by Pamela Robertson-Pearce and Neil Astley (Bloodaxe Books, 2017). For more details please see bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/the-touch-of-time-1093
