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POETRY · OCTOBER 2026

Commonplace Book

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Taylor Strickland

£8.99

£14.00

RRP £12.00

ISBN 978-1-915079-45-9

Taylor Strickland’s Commonplace Book moves across the Atlantic from the poet’s native United States to the landscape and seascape of Scotland, exploring through its inquiring lines the beauty of the terrain and the complexity of human life. Commonplace Book features poetry of fresh and dextrous language, firmly rooted in tradition, alive to the “melon-light dripping from each rock/ like meltwater.”

PRAISE FOR COMMONPLACE BOOK

The poems of Commonplace Book search for promise and light in disillusionment, but are aware that brilliance doesn't preclude abandonment: they are powerful explorations of the complications and limits of the marvellous.
— Pàdraig MacAoidh/Peter Mackay, Gu Leòr / Galore

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Taylor Strickland is a poet and translator from the US. He is the author of Commonplace Book and Dastram/Delirium , his forthcoming versions of Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (both with Broken Sleep Books). Recently, his poem ‘The Low Road’ was adapted by American composer, Andrew Kohn, and performed in Orkney. His poem ‘Nine Whales, Tiree’ is in the process of being adapted to film with filmmaker Olivia Booker and composer Fee Blumenthaler. He is currently a doctoral candidate in literary translation at the…