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Killochries 

Jim Carruth

Freight

 

The most recent collection by Jim Carruth, who was appointed poet laureate of Glasgow in July 2014. Through the medium of poetry, it gives the account of a young man broken by drink and drugs who spends a remedial year with an unyielding relative on a bleak country farm.

 
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