{"product_id":"9781908251350","title":"Be the First to Like This","description":"Throw a stone in Edinburgh or Glasgow today and you'll hit a poet. The Scottish spoken word scene has exploded, reaching a level of popularity last seen in the late 1970s, another era, coincidentally, when the issue of Scottish self-determination was in the air. A generation of poets has emerged who have grown up in an age of change, political and technological, with the internet providing them not only with new ways of sharing writing  -  through their websites, podcasts, Twitter  -  but also in some cases with a subject too. The Sound of Youngish Scotland is the first attempt to capture the spirit of a diverse scene where every poet is their own movement  -  from McGuire's hilarious, Beat-inflected deconstructions of sexuality to MacGillivray's mystic tales of Scottish cowboys, equal parts MacDiarmid and McCarthy; from William Letford's building-site tales to Russell Jones' sci-fi poetry. It's a scene where you are just as liable to encounter ancient gods as you are video game characters. The Sound of Youngish Scotland features forty poets, mostly under-forty who have made Scotland their home. It's a survey, a yearbook, a celebration and a promise of things to come.","brand":"Colin Waters","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47708479684926,"sku":"9781908251350","price":442.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9781908251350_6509b35c-c3ab-4477-b0c4-6f30ecae8cc6.jpg?v=1707644668","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9781908251350","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}