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In Beyond Identity , thirteen of Scotland’s best known poets reflect upon the theoretical, practical and political considerations involved in the act of writing. They furnish a unique guide to contemporary Scottish poetry, discussing a range of issues that include nationhood, education, language, religion, landscape, translation and identity. John Burnside, Robert Crawford, Douglas Dunn, Kathleen Jamie, Edwin Morgan, Kenneth White and others, together with such noted experimentalists as Frank Kuppner, Tom Leonard and Richard Price, explore questions about the relationship between social, economic and ecological realities and their poetic transformation. These interviews are set within the altered political context that followed from the re-establishment of a Scottish Parliament in 1999 and the potential of a renewed engagement with wider European culture Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Scotland, Poetry and Other Realities -- Edwin Morgan: Our Man in Glasgow -- Douglas Dunn: A Different Drummer -- Robert Crawford: The Emphatic Soul -- John Burnside: Poets and Other Animals -- Kathleen Jamie: More Than Human -- Don Paterson: The Music of Consciousness -- Tom Leonard: The Sound of Poetry -- Frank Kuppner: The Pragmatism of Profundity -- W.N. Herbert: The Poetry Game -- Kate Clanchy: The Sister Art -- Kenneth White: A Strategist of Mutation -- Aonghas Macneacail: Land, Language, Memory -- Richard Price: Signage on the Super Highway -- Index.
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