Poems [2015] hardback Condition:New and shuffling

and shuffling

and the ensuing lifelong memories from this extraordinary experience

rediscovering long-forgotten flavours and food fashions along the way

'A treasure trove of inspiring

Drawing these threads together

Poems [2015] hardback Condition:New and shufflingIain Banks is celebrated as a novelist and science fiction writer. It is less well known that his first published work was the poem '041', in New Writing Scotland in 1983. Like the poems that appeared within his novels, this was selected from the many he had written between 1973 and 1981. Banks took his poetry seriously and worked on it assiduously, but showed it mostly to friends. He first thought of publishing his poetry late in 2012, though