Harpercroft Publications
Old Bank House
24 Castle Street
Crail, Fife KY10 3SH
Scotland
Tel 01333 451744
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Watching the Sun, by Gordon Jarvie (2008)Add to Basket |
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ISBN : 978-095335306-4
32 pages, price £4.95
Fifteen new poems, about birds (swans, blackbirds, geese, partridges . . .), also about remembrance, cold weather, the seasons, visiting an observatory, revisiting Dublin, life in Fife and earlier life in Edinburgh.
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The Tale of the Crail Whale, by Gordon Jarvie (2006)Add to Basket |
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ISBN : 0 95335305 2
24 pages, price £2.95
A year's crop of poems, some serious others less so. Topics covered include birds and animals, office life, churchyards, the death of friends old and recent, gardens, the Fife coast, a night flight, poetry readings and whisky distilling.
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Another Working Monday, by Gordon Jarvie (2005)Add to Basket |
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This is a diary of insights into aspects of one man’s year. Here are poems about a bad day at the office, exploring North-east Fife, the purchase of a new car, expeditions into the Highland hills, the sale of the cottage in Brittany, Christmas street scenes, the changing seasons, looking at a favourite painting, a family bereavement, an episode on the Glasgow train – and other everyday events.
24 pages, price £2.95. ISBN 0 95335304 4
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Ayrshire Recessional, by Gordon Jarvie (1998)Add to Basket |
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A first collection, containing autobiographical and diary-type poems, covering – among other topics – domestic life, holidays in Brittany, overseas travel, and the death of the writer’s mother.
72 pages, price £5.95, ISBN 0 95335 300 1
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Climber’s Calendar, by Gordon Jarvie (2001)Add to Basket |
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Sixteen poems arranged as a diary of hill walks, this sequence is about the Scottish Highland wilderness, comradeship, and the dying of the light.
24 pages, price £2.50, ISBN 0 95335301 X
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Room for a Rhyme from Time to Time, by Gordon Jarvie (2004)Add to Basket |
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Nineteen poems that revisit favourite subjects, including hill walking, Brittany, family life, and the passage of time.
24 pages, price £2.95, ISBN 0 95335303 6
Here are a few review comments:
‘Jarvie excels in poems of the outdoors, climbing and the Highlands.’
Sally Evans, Poetry Scotland website
‘Recommended for anyone drawn to Scotland’s high places.’
Lesley Duncan, The Herald
‘Readers may well be reminded of Norman MacCaig’s mountain poetry . . . Jarvie is adept at creating an almost photographic image in the reader’s mind. His rhythm tends to be assured, even elegant.’
Gordon Smith, The Angry Corrie
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