LATER THAT DAY - Poetry Book Society choice - Andrew Greig

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Later That Day by Andrew Greig presents nine volumes of poetry distilled into a single collection, spanning personal remembrance, Scottish landscapes, and intimate emotional turns. The contents move through themed sections such as “An End to Waiting,” “What’s in a Name,” and “From the Other Side of the World,” featuring poems that pair everyday objects with larger reflections. With a prose style valued for candour and storytelling, the collection shapes adventure and humanity into a cohesive lyric sequence.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLiterature

FormatPDF

Pages86

Reading Time2 h 12 min

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I. AN END TO WAITING

A Cast-iron Rose

And the World Says (A-side)

Day of the Double Duvet

And the World Says (B-side)

Morning Tsunami

A Late Reply

Gadgets

Registrar

Creature Comforts

The Scales

Bottle

An End to Waiting

II. WHAT'S IN A NAME

Climbing Early in Glencoe

Jimmy Shand

The Pits

The Wonder Box

'I see you keep a bee'

The Bluebell Polka

Sadie Dog

Training Session Below Wester Craiglockhart

The Wild Shirt

William Fowler in Padua

Late Kandinsky, Anthea and Ingrid

III. FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD

Day I

Looking at Stinkhorn

Thinking about Sam Hunt at Kaipara Harbour

Explorer (at Karekare)

Settlers

IV. THE WAY TO WAREBETH BEACH

Return to the Green Corrie

In a Dry Gorge (Crete)

Clouds at Sea off Colonsay

On Brough of Birsay, Orkney

Landing

The Old Codgers

Towards the End of the Feast

In the Fields of Oblivion

The Way to Warebeth Beach

Acknowledgements

LaterThatDayAndrewGreigAndreuo Greig'spoetry has been moving meto tears and smiles for fify years'VAL McDERMID # LATER THAT DAY Andrew Greig is a Scottish writer living in Edinburghand Orkney.He has written seven novels including InAnother Light(Weidenfeld &Nicolson),That Summer(Faber &Faber)and The Return ofJohn Macnab(Quercus).His non-fiction books,on a variety of subjects,includeSummit Fever(Canongate);You Know What You CouldBe:Tuning into the I96os(Quercus),with Mike Heron;Preferred Lies:A Journey to the Heart of Scottish Golf(Weidenfeld &Nicolson);and the much-loved At the Lochof the Green Corrie(Quercus),a fishing quest in Assynt inmemory of his friend and mentor Norman MacCaig.His prose titles are cherished by many for theiremotional candour,humanity and enjoyment ofstorytelling and adventure.Yet the heart of his life'swork lies in nine volumes of poetry,including Found atSea(Polygon);Getting Higher:The Complete MountainPoems(Polygon)and This Life,This Life:New and SelectedPoems I970-2006(Bloodaxe).His collection The Order ofthe Day(Bloodaxe)was a Poetry Book Society choice https://archive.org/details/laterthatday0000grei LATER THAT DAY Andrew Greig plygo LATER THAT DAY Andrew Greig Polygon First published in Great Britain in2020 byPolygon,an imprint of Birlinn Ltd. Birlinn LtdWest Newington HouseIo Newington RoadEdinburgh EH9 IQS www.polygonbooks.co.uk 98765432 I Copyright Andrew Greig,2020 The right ofAndrew Greig to be identified as the author ofthis work has been asserted in accordance with theCopyright,Designs and Patents Act I988.All rightsreserved.No part of this publication may be reproduced,stored or transmitted in any form,orby any means electronic,mechanical or photocopying,recording or otherwise,without the express written permission of the publisher. ISBN9781846975I89 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication DataA catalogue record for this book is availablefrom the British Library. Typeset in Verdigris MVB by Polygon,EdinburghPrinted and bound byTJ International,Padstow CONTENTS I.AN END TO WAITING A Cast-iron Rose 3And the World Says(A-side)4Day of the Double Duvet5And the World Says(B-side)7Morning Tsunami8ALate Reply9GadgetsIORegistrarIICreature Comforts I3The ScalesI4BottleI5An End to WaitingI6 II.WHAT's IN A NAME Climbing Early in Glencoe2IJimmy ShandThe Pits22The Wonder Box23'I see you keepa bee'24The Bluebell Polka25Sadie Dog26Training Session Below WesterCraiglockhart27 The Wild Shirt29William Fowler in Padua30Late Kandinsky,Anthea andIngrid33 # III.FROM THE OTHER SIDEOF THE WORLD Day I39Looking at Stinkhorn4IThinking about Sam Hunt atKaipara Harbour43Explorer(at Karekare)45Settlers46 # IV.THE WAY TO WAREBETH BEACH Return to the Green Corrie57In a Dry Gorge(Crete)58Clouds at Sea off Colonsay59On Brough of Birsay,Orkney60Landing6IThe Old Codgers62Towards the End of the Feast65In the Fields of Oblivion66The Way to Warebeth Beach67Acknowledgements7I

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Who wrote Later That Day?

Later That Day is written by Andrew Greig, a Scottish writer living in Edinburgh and Orkney.

What are the main sections in the book?

The contents are organized into sections including “I. An End to Waiting,” “II. What’s in a Name,” “III. From the Other Side of the World,” and “IV. The Way to Warebeth Beach.”

What does the book’s title suggest about its structure or mood?

The collection presents poems as sequential entries across multiple themed parts, moving from waiting and names to wider perspectives and specific coastal journeys like the way to Warebeth Beach.

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