Books by Ian Crockatt

The poet Ian Crockatt uses the same highly-wrought form here developed by the Skalds (the professional poets employed by the kings and earls of the Viking courts of the 9th to 13th centuries) to tell a quasi-Viking tale set in the landscapes and seascapes once under Viking control.

A series of 20 'early-memory' poems by award winning poet Ian Crockatt. The poems' vividly captured pictures focus on the intensity and physicality of a child's outdoor life in a Scottish village in the 1950s. The struggles and joys of boyhood in a large family, village life from a boy's perspective, friendship, fights, stirrings of sexual feelings - they are all here, brought to life in open, dynamically rhythmic verse which is both passionate about detail and satisfyingly universal. Not to be missed!