Atoms of Delight

Download or read book Atoms of Delight written by Alec Finlay and published by Polygon. This book was released on 2000 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atoms of Delight is an anthology of Scottish haiku and other short poetic forms, including epigrams, proverbs, couplets, spaces, one-line poems and one-word poems. The poets include established names such as Alan Spence, Kathleen Jamie, Edwin Morgan, Kevin MacNeil, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Sheena Blackhall, Bruce Leeming and Iain Crichton Smith. Atoms of Delight brings together all of the short poetic forms, used by Scottish writers: Japanese haiku and the Latin epigram, the indigenous proverb and epitaph, and contemporary European innovations such as the one-word poem.