Bøger af Tom Leonard

This is a 2019 reprint published by his surviving family and intended to be as close to the original as possible.It contains work from his two main collections Intimate Voices (Poetry 1965-83) and access to the silence (Poems 1984-2004); also poems from Being a Human Being (2006) and work not in previous books including an elegaic sequence for his mother, a prose memoir of his father, a poem-suite "on the page" and a tri-part envoi to the collection.CONTENTSPollok Poster 1 13Six Glasgow Poems 14The Voyeur 20 Dripping with Nostalgia 21Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae 22don't tell wordsworth 23Four of the Belt 24The Psycopath 25The Appetite 26Storm Damage 27A Priest Came on at Merkland Street 28an oxford dictionary 36Poetry 37Jist ti Let Yi No 38Tea Time 39Paroakial 40A Summer's Day still life with creative writing teacher 41 Yon Night 43Feed ma Lamz 44The Qualification 45The Dropout 46Fireworks 47Makars Society 48Crack 49Pfff 50Moral Philosophy 51My Parents' Living Room at Christmas 53Fathers and Sons 54Placenta 55The Rainbow Of 56breathe deep and regular with it 61Rosebud 62100 Differences between Poetry and Prose 63 The Evidence 64Proem 65who wants to be free 66your eyes 67An Ageing Writer 68The Performance 69epitaph 75in the beginning was the word 76from Unrelated Incidents 77ma lungz iz fuckt 83humpty dumpty 84mehta physics 85would thi prisoner 86baa baa black sheep 87commemorative stamp 88yonza big wank 89efturryd geenuz iz speel 90right inuff 91An Old Story 92colorado mountain air 93Honest 94so whut day yi day wi yirsell then ih 98yi surta 99seen im? 100Opting for early retirement 101firmly 102Skills 103The underfunder's utopia 104doon the close 105Myths in These Parts106respite in the reading 107the enemy without 108a handy news standfor the next bombing 109The Present Tense 110ablative absolute 123situations theoretical and contemporary 124the press as bogus phatic communion 128Blessed Trinity 132leaning forward 1331st Poster Poem against the criminal injustice bill 1344 football haiku 135a could eata hoarss 136rest assured 137glorious weather in a teacup 138ahma hoarss 139the mainstream a clerisy 140nora's place: a Poem in 17 aspects 141A night at the pictures 160triptych: the ongoing memorial 163to have access to the silence 170in hospital 171suite: On the Page 172the case for lower case 178the pact 180June the Second 181touching your face 182kierkegaard 183Remembrance Day 184who want my smile 186The Fair Cop 187Wish you were Here 191getting on with it 194foodfor thought 195plasma nights 196The Proxy Badge of Victimhood 198Litany: Blair's Britain 201Epithalamium 203Being a Human Being 204An Ayrshire Mother 205that each one be the subject 210odysseus 212A humanist 213a life 214

Reprint of Tom's Leonard's first published book.Many of the poems appear in his later books. The intention has been to copy this as accurately as possible, including any typos the original had. Contents11 The Other Side of the Ticket12 Dream13 Summer 14 Another Sunday-poem15 Sweetheart16 Patron of the Arts17 Epitaph on an Introvert Wit18 Television Advertisement19 Little Jenny's Complaint (1)20 Little Jenny's Complaint (2)21 The Romantic22 Hill Street23 The Inner Melancholy of the Poet24 Phallflower25 The Psychopath26 The Remark27 similie please / say cheese29-36 A Priest Came On At Merkland Street38 She sells sea-shells39 Psychiatrist40 Words, for E.41 This Island Now42 Soft and Strong43 The Voyeur44 Honest45 Landscape47-50 The Performance52 Perpetual Stasis53 The Image54 The Poetry Reading55 Pyrrhic Victory56 The Main Feature57 Keep Right On58 As Luck Would Have It59 23rd Story60 The Virgins61 Storm Damage62 I said63 Full-frontal Astronauts64 At the Employment Exchange65 The Appetite67-75 Six Glasgow Poems76-79 Three Pollock PostersBelow is the description that been on back of the original bookTom Leonard was born in Glasgow in 1944. He worked as a Civil Servant then as a sales assistant in a bookshop before entering Glasgow University as a student in 1967. He left two years later without completing his degree: a variety of clerical jobs followed. He currently works for the Post Office in London. He is married (and has one son). It was during his term as a student at Glasgow University, when his poems appeared in university magazines, that his work began to draw some attention in Scotland. Poems subsequently appeared in established Scottish magazines, and samples of his work were broadcast several times on B.B.C. Radio. A local Glasgow publisher, Midnight Press, then published his "Six Glasgow Poems" and "A Priest Came on at Merkland Street", and both of these publications established the poet's reputation as one of the most talented and original young writers on the contemporary Scottish literary scene. After many readings in Glasgow and at successive Edinburgh Festivals, he was granted a literary award by the Scottish Arts Council in 1971.A comprehensive selection of his work has been long overdue. This first "slim volume" will undoubtedly be welcome on many Scottish bookshelves; it will also, we are sure, further establish Tom Leonard's reputation beyond his native Scotland, and will provide a rewarding experience for all those throughout the British Isles who are interested in contemporary poetry.

This is a 2019 reprint published by his surviving family and intended to be as close to the original as possible.The text below came from the original book: The prose in this collection falls mainly into three categories: literary, topical-political and personal. They overlap. Some of the literary criticism was written when John Linklater was literary editor of the Glasgow Herald. He let me choose which books to review and, unusually for a daily paper editor, let me have complete editing control on my copy to the usual limit of about a thousand words.I am grateful to him for the space he thus gave me to pursue some lines of thought around writers such as Browning and Clare. Several of the fuller essays were written for the Edinburgh Review when Peter Kravitz was the editor in the eighties. Here too it was liberating to have the trust of an editor granting me as it were a space when I wanted to pursue ideas and, as these things work, to try to find out in words what I believe. The prose runs from an essay of 1973 written for Scottish International to some extracts this year from the journal I have maintained on my website since 2009.The extracts from this journal overall are arranged in three separate sections under the title "From a Room in Scotland". The letter which follows the article "A Taboo too Far" was not composed for publication but seemed appropriate to add as its composition is referred to in the article that precedes it; and I think it may be of practical use for some. A co-dependency between mendacity and violence seems to be a recurring theme over the years, for which creativity in and through art is put as one restorative bond of integrity of purpose.Tom Leonard Glasgow, September 2012

This is a 2019 reprint by his surviving family intended to make this lesser known work more widely available.The full transcript of his radio play first broadcast on 12th February 1977 on Radio 4 Scotland and was first published in 1979 by Print Studio Press, though only 600 were printed.The play satirises the Scottish literary scene of the time, a series of sketches centring on a Glasgow writer.

Radical Renfrew challenges the view of nineteenth-century West of Scotland literature which sees it as a desert in which a few 'minor figures' bloomed: it asserts that people have been deprived of a whole literature of what they once held to be valid poetry. The introduction closely argues why and how this has come about.Nearly four hundred pages of poetry are brought back into print, all from the extensive archives of Paisley Central Library where Tom Leonard worked as writer-in-residence during the book's compilation.Besides known Renfrew poets such as John Davidson and James Thomson of Port Glasgow, over 60 other writers are featured, including the forgotten radical feminist Marion Bernstein, and the pungent Chartist satirist Edward Polin. For the reader's help, a guide to some of the main themes supplements the contents list.The aim of the book, Leonard stated, was to be pan of that process by which anyone can use the public library to reclaim and reconstruct their own past.TOM LEONARD was born in Glasgow in 1944 and died in 2018. This book is published by his surviving family, thirty years after it was first published.

In this new translation by the distinguished Scottish poet Tom Leonard of Brecht's great 1939 anti-war play "Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder," Mother Courage is a working-class woman from the West of Scotland speaking the racy working-class nonstandard language of Glasgow. The rest of the cast speak varieties of English language subtly shaded for ir