{"product_id":"9781908251350","title":"Be the First to Like This: New Scottish Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003eThrow a stone in Edinburgh or Glasgow today and you'll hit a young 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. Be The First to Like This: New Scottish Poetry is the first attempt to capture the spirit of a diverse scene where every poet is their own movement - from McGuire's hilarious deconstructions of sexuality to Michael Pedersen's dole-office blues; from William Letford's building-site tales to MacGillivray's mystic cowboys. It's a scene where you are just as liable to encounter ancient gods as you are video game characters; Richard Branson as you are Dolly the Sheep. Be the First to Like This features thirty-eight 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Voices Publishin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50096655761648,"sku":"9781908251350","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781908251350","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}