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 | Collected Poems and Short Stories
by Peter Buchan Sample |
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| ISBN 978 0 903065 77 1 | 432 pages | illustrated hardback | £16.95 |
| For many years Peter Buchan was the voice of Scotland's North-East fishing communities, dispensing wisdom and good humour in his poems and short stories which were published regularly from the mid-1940s to 1991. This book contains 116 short stories, including all those which appeared in Fit Like, Skipper? | |
| A great interest in people provided the main source of his inspiration to write: 'Human naitur', he called it, and his observations around his home town of Peterhead, and further afield, in fishing ports such as Stornoway and Yarmouth, resulted in the many marvellous character studies now collected in this volume. | |
| Peter Buchan was unique, writing mostly in the North-East dialect, exactly as he spoke it every day of his life. He was one of the caretakers of this rich and beautiful language and he used it with great skill to describe the lives of fisher folk. | |
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