Poppies in the Corn : Verses in Lothian Scots

Author(s): Dodds, Andrew

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Dust Jacket Condition:	No Jacket
Edition:	1st Edition
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	Gowans and Gray
Publication Year:	1924
Publication Place:	Glasgow and London
Book ID:	001764
Catalogue(s):	Poetry, Poetical Criticism and Poets

48pp. Decorated cloth boards (rubbed all round and a little grubby). Internally neat and clean barring remnants of label on front paste down and page 9, which has pen marks and some scuffing. Occasional spotting. Ffep lacking. A good only copy. Andrew Dodds was of a Midlothian mining family. He wrote many newspaper articles in support of Labour politics & agricultural unions and produced five volumes of strongly Scottish poetry, from The Lothian Land in 1917 to The Lady April in 1951, which gave an unsentimental picture of the life of farm labourers.12mo

Keywords:

poetry scottish poetry labour politics scotland scottish literature