no one could know the scale of the project he [Mick Imlah] had undertaken. The book turned out to be nothing less than an account of the matter of Scotland, from pre-literate beginnings to recent times--including, towards the end, some very beautiful poems about his partner and young family. Its ambition is completely matched by its technical skill--everything from blank verse to hexameters. Its reinvention of 19th-century forms and tones is compelling. Its ironies are engrossing.from Andrew Motion: The Guardian: The week in books
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