Greengown

'At once lyrical and playful, measured and courageous, adventurous yet unashamedly intellectual, David Kinloch fuses a contemporary sensibility with a subtle sense of history. His distinctive, companionable articulation of Francophilia, gay life, and Scottish culture gives the work a winning and lasting integrity.' - Robert Crawford; 'Greengown collects the key poems of David Kinloch's remarkable body of work to date. You don't read his poems so much as live inside them. They offer a thoughtful and tender world that is utterly distinctive. As the first in UK poetry to bear sustained witness to the tragedy of AIDS, Kinloch's early work has astonishing maturity. He is rightly acknowledged as a master of the prose poem, the technique clearly forged in the development of his queer poetics.' - Richard Price