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Fetch - by Colin Bramwell (Paperback)

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  • An exceptional Scottish debut, Fetch stands out for its formal dexterity, linguistic hybridity and playfulness - Bramwell takes the lyric seriously, but not too seriously.In Celtic folklore a fetch is a shadowy doppelganger that appears from the Otherworld, portending the beholder's fate.
  • About the Author: Colin Bramwell's poetry has been published widely in major poetry magazines and in his pamphlet The Highland Citizenship Test.
  • 180 Pages
  • Poetry, European

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An exceptional Scottish debut, Fetch stands out for its formal dexterity, linguistic hybridity and playfulness - Bramwell takes the lyric seriously, but not too seriously.

In Celtic folklore a fetch is a shadowy doppelganger that appears from the Otherworld, portending the beholder's fate. Your fetch 'fetches' you to the afterlife, willingly or otherwise. Bramwell's poetry uses the fetch as a model to explore a number of overlapping binaries - between the reader and the poem, most of all. Fetch also meditates on the differences between music and speech, the sacred and the profane, the written and the real, humanity and nature, Scots and English. Incorporating multitudes of modes, forms, registers and subjects, Bramwell converses with the Anglo-Celtic lyric tradition in our own time and in his own distinctively amiable fashion. In other words, this poet takes poetry seriously--but not too seriously.

Fetch is an astonishingly musical and irreverent tour-de-force from one of Britain's most exciting new poets, in which reverence and irreverence, religion and faithlessness, the living and the dead, nearly rhyme.




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"What a celebration and selection we are offered. Bramwell masters everything from the prose poem to the villanelle to daring, accumulative poems; there are snatches of dramatic verse and witty tilts at the Scottish character. There are even remarkable open translations into Scots from Latin American and Chinese poets." --John Glenday and Kathleen Jamie, 2020 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award

"Fower Pessoas is a revelation, and shows just how strong Scots poetry can be. What is exceptional is that Bramwell fashions distinct, plural Scots for Pessoa's different heteronyms. The chutzpah is amazing." --Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman





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Colin Bramwell's poetry has been published widely in major poetry magazines and in his pamphlet The Highland Citizenship Test. He was the runner-up for the 2020 Edwin Morgan Prize, and his translations have won the John Dryden Translation Competition and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize. From the Black Isle, he now lives in Edinburgh.
Dimensions (Overall): 7.8 Inches (H) x 5.1 Inches (W)
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 180
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: European
Publisher: And Other Stories
Theme: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Format: Paperback
Author: Colin Bramwell
Language: English
Street Date: September 8, 2026
TCIN: 1008549045
UPC: 9781916751699
Item Number (DPCI): 247-45-9532
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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