Getting Higher - the Complete Mountain Poems (Electronic book text)

?Andrew Greig is a Scottish poet of sensitivity and resilience. He deals with high-risk situations ? from mountaineering to love ? and is particularly good at presenting the gamut of feelings involved in rites of passage: high endeavour, commitment, holding back, drift, releaseOCO ? Edwin Morgan ?A writer of integrity and imaginative energyOCO ? TLS ?A lyric poet of rare gustoOCO ? The Observer Alongside the mountain poems from Men on Ice, Order of the Day and Western Swing, Getting Higher features brand new material, facsimiles of previously unpublished material ?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 collectorOCOs item full of illustrations, marginalia and notes."