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Halesome Farin'
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(Wholesome Fare)
by John Waddell |
UK price:
£8.85
US price:
$15.95
Format: Paperback
Size : 6 x 9
Pages: 166
ISBN: 0-595-33011-8
Published: Sep-2004
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This is the third book of
poems by John Waddell,
following the publication of
his first very successful
collection, The Flying
Snail and his second
book, A Glimpse of Eden.
This time all the poems are
written in the beautiful,
rich, and descriptive Scots
language familiar to all
brought up north of the
border.
Book Description
These poems written in the
beautiful, rich and
descriptive Scots language
are a real ‘Clootie Dumplin’
mixture of ingredients all
held together with the
‘cloot’ of John Waddell’s
ability to paint the most
wonderful word pictures,
such as the wee robin eating
his porridge, or the wee
laddie picking up his
football and going home when
he wasn’t winning, or the
wonderful display of the
Giacobinias, October, 1933,
witnessed by the poet on his
way home from his fiddle
lesson. This is a book to
share with friends for
anniversaries, birthdays, or
Christmas. Above all, it is
a book to treasure.
About the author
Members of
the Caledonian Society to
which John Waddell belongs
know him to be a very keen
gardener, with a garden the
envy of all. All his poems
about gardening are
deliciously funny, but the
poem Gairden Walk,
which goes from disaster to
disaster, is a real gem.
While so many of his poems
on a wide range of human
experience express delicate
and wry humour, his personal
and deeper poems are
especially sensitive and
moving.
Book by John Waddell's
brother, Alexander Waddell:
This is a really a
remarkable book about World
War 2. So many
battlegrounds—first in the
Shetlands (a preparation
rather than a battle), then
the desert in North Africa,
then D-Day itself into
France, and finally Norway!
As a first-hand account by
someone directly involved in
these battles, especially
the D-day invasion, this
work is a very valuable
record of history.
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