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Ian Crockatt has created a quasi Viking tale, set in the landscapes and seascapes of territories once partially or wholly under Viking control – the north-east corner of Scotland where he now lives, the West Coast of Scotland where he used to live, and, in one poem, Iceland. It is a story in which people love, go to war, and suffer – the form of the poems may be new to some but the emotional landscape will be familiar to all.

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Ian Crockatt is a prize-winnning poet and translator, and has published six collections of his own poetry. His poem sequence Original Myths, with etchings by the Scottish artist Paul Fleming, was nominated for the Saltire Society's Scottish Book of the Year Award in 2000. As a translator, he won the prestigious Schlegel-Tiek Prize for translation from German in 2014 for Pure Contracdiction: Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (Arc, 2012), and in the same year, his Crimsoning the Eagle's Claw: Viking Poems of Rognvaldr Kali Kolsson, Earl of Orkney (Arc, 2014) was a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.

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