Richard Myers has worked as a solicitor in England, in business development in Scotland, and as a small-scale farmer in the Highlands, with short spells as a mine labourer and as a ghillie. He lives in retirement in Edinburgh with his long suffering wife, Judith. He adds, \u201cMost of the poems are based on my efforts to do a variety of things. They are nearly all set out of doors on land or sea. I have been concerned about the environment since I heard about \u2018Gaia\u2019 in the 1970s\u201d<\/p>\n
Farmer-poet Richard Myers draws us into the visceral reality of husbandry with chunky, physical language: words dug from soil, sentences harvested from the fields he\u2019s ploughed, the barns where he\u2019s helped sheep birth, cows die. As a relief, perhaps, from the earth, Richard is drawn to water and writes wonderfully of the sea and its teeming life. What a lovely collection. Humour teases at the margins, holiness pulses at its core. <\/i>Tim Pears<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Poems about farming and the sea and much more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2106,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_cat":[46,33],"product_tag":[],"product_author":[115],"year_published":[53],"acf":{"isbn":"978-1-912052-66-0","publishing_date":"20211011","author":"Richard Myers","medium":"book","kindle_ebook_link":"","sm_ebook_link":""},"yoast_head":"\n