Poems

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Machine generated contents note: Poems / Iain Banks -- Damage -- 3 -- Zakalwe's Song -- Sisyphus -- 7 -- Skull -- 9 -- Ozery's Song -- Hesitation -- Outward Siege -- The Signpost at Midnight -- Extract Solenoid -- 18 -- Metaphormosis -- 19 -- Love Poem -- Equivocal -- Firing From the Hip -- A -- Firing From the Hip -- B -- I & II -- Routenburn -- J -- an apology -- On The Wrong Lines -- Mediterranean -- A Word to the Wise -- Exponential -- Spin-Off -- (Remains Of) -- 041 -- 23 -- I to I -- Irregular -- Somewhere Near the Snow Line -- Same Sea -- Jack -- 'Slight Mechanical Destruction' -- Caucasian Spiritual -- A Glass of Water -- Resume -- Song for J -- Meniscus -- Spoils -- 25 -- Askance -- Revue -- Debriefing -- Capital -- Wealth -- New -- Thermal -- Rannoch I -- Poems / Ken MacLeod -- Erosion -- Uneasy Lies -- Charles Fort -- Faith as a Grain of Poppy Seed -- Re-entry -- Ham's Story -- Stalin -- Caesarian -- Birds and Bees and That -- Rosemergy -- Revolution -- Liberation.
Iain Banks the literary novelist and Iain M. Banks the science fiction writer are too well known to need introduction, but Iain Banks the poet has hitherto been almost undetected: a single poem was published in a magazine and three short pieces within the novels. But he took his poetry seriously and worked on it carefully, though he shared the results mainly with friends. Readers of Iain's novels will find in these poems many aspects of his writing with which they're already familiar: a humane and materialist sensibility, an unflinching stare at the damage people can do to each other, a warm appreciation of the joy they can give to each other, a revel in language, a geologically informed gaze on land and sea, a continued meditation on what it means for us to be mortal embodied minds with a fleeting but consequent existence between abysses of deep time. Ken MacLeod, Iain's long-time friend and collaborator, has collected his poems according to his wishes, and they are published here - most for the first time - alongside a selection of Ken's own poetry.
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