The Cutting Edge. Collected Poems 1966-2003 By David Morrison

26th April 2006

Foreword by Gerry Cambridge. Introduction by Iain Crichton Smith

"Though his poetry has a masculine outspokenness and force, he is very sensitive to the feminine part of his nature."
Iain Crichton Smith

"David Morrison takes a clear look at life and all who share it and writes about them (and himself) with admirable energy. His 'character poems', to take an example, are a joy to read."
Norman MacCaig

"If this is the voice of the north, it speaks from a full, warm heart for its neighbour, and that is a voice worth hearing in ony airt."
Tom Scott

"His poetry is the verbal record of his love affair with Scotland, an affair that embraces identifiable individuals and reaches out to the readers of this book."
Alan Bold

David Morrison is a retired librarian who lives in Wick. A founder of the literary magazine Scotia Review - he passed on the mantle of that publication after many years only recently to Christine Russell. David morrison also paints and has had several exhibitions of his work. More recently he has been chairman of the Wick community council and helped with his paths sub committee to have extensive works carried out near thre harbour and along the riverside in Wick.

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April 2006. 112 pp. ISBN 3-901993-22-3
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