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    Getting Higher: the Complete Mountain Poems
    Getting Higher: the Complete Mountain Poems
    Getting Higher: the Complete Mountain Poems
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    Getting Higher: the Complete Mountain Poems

    By Andrew Greig, Rory Watson and James Hutcheson

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    Alongside the mountain poems from Men on Ice, Order of the Day and Western Swing will be brand new material, facsimiles of previously unpublished material - including his first poem, written in 1972 - and illustrations and material from the National Library of Scotland archive. A beautiful collector's item full of illustrations, marginalia and notes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBirlinn
    Release dateAug 1, 2011
    ISBN9780857900258
    Getting Higher: the Complete Mountain Poems
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    Andrew Greig

    Andrew Greig is a Scottish writer living in Edinburgh and Orkney. He has written seven novels, a variety of non-fiction books, and nine volumes of poetry, including Found At Sea, Getting Higher: Complete Mountain Poems and This Life, This Life: New and Selected Poems. His collection The Order of the Day was a Poetry Book Society choice.

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