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Angus Martin reading ‘The Tiller’

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Angus Martin reading his poem 'The Tiller'. This piece featured as an SAC Poem of the Month for July 2007.

About the author: Angus Martin was born in Campbeltown in 1952 and became a herring fisherman at the age of 15. He began writing poetry in his early teens, and has had 36 books published, including 10 of his poetry. 'The Larch Plantation', his first poetry collection, received a Scottish Arts Council Spring Award in 1991.

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Filed Under: Fisherfolk Tagged With: Angus Martin 1952-, Kintyre, poems

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