If This Were Real

by Gerda Stevenson

Appearing at the Edinburgh Festival, August 2013.

If This Were Real is a kind of autobiography in verse: beginning in the lost Eden of childhood, the warmth of family life and the wildness of weather in her native Scotland, then on to intense snapshots of a wider, troubled world: Bosnia, Iraq, Syria. From Pentland rain to Sarajevo roses, these are poems that demand not just to be read, but to be performed, 'spot-lit lies,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0957172273
• ISBN13: 9780957172272
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Smokestack Books
• Length: 98 Pages