Scotland's Saint

by Glenn Telfer

Overview

Poems inspired by Saint Columba’s on-going mission to Scotland.

A light-hearted, but erudite and faithful collection of poems exploring Scotland’s Christian heritage through the life of its most famous saint, Saint Columba. Other saints, Ninian and Mungo, turn up too as the collection moves between the heroic age of Scottish Christianity and our own time.
The saint’s return is long overdue, no-one’s listening anymore to the message.
Except, maybe, you.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045948876
Publisher:	Glenn Telfer
Publication date:	04/07/2014
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

I am now almost fully grown, being born in 1956 in working-class Glasgow, Scotland (from Kinning Park, Dennistoun and Ibrox, if you’re asking). The hammer and tongs, coal-powered world I grew up in is as gone as Troy, and with it the industrial working class that served it. What seemed so solid and forever, disappeared almost overnight and is rapidly becoming unknowable except through people like me. The hasty departure of a way of life and its replacement by globalized uncertainty is both the background to my life and the raw material of my art. Considering what’s gone, what’s here, what’s yet to come is what I’m about; itemising the bill of this life through my writing. Other poets have explored this too, but none are as like the poet as he is himself. This is my special qualification.Imagine being able to write a book? Even when I was a wee boy throwing stones and playing street football I wanted to be a writer. And all the while I thought I was living my life backwards and sideways I was actually tracing a Celtic knotwork to here. Whatever the reason for this want, this writing may be the cure. May be is also maybe not.