A teenage boy struggling with the coming-of-age issues of sexuality, religion, and peer approval is overwhelmed, but soldiers on. After several years, he comes to understand the family forces that have left him so deeply troubled, and the process of
I Made My Boy Out of Poetry is a powerful literary vision of rare scope, beauty and emotional intensity composed of stories and poems that flow in and out of each other like the most lucid and articulate of dreams. These are portraits and studies of
Peter Urpeth is a novelist, poet and arts journalist living and working in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland.
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My interests as a writer focus on exploring myth, community, language and nature. I feel a very close link between my writing and my love of the natural world, and of wild places. My books are hopefully strong, natural stories, joyous, uplifting, and above all else I use the traditions of story-telling to weave good tales.
I live and work in the Outer Hebrides, 50 miles off the north west coast of Scotland in the north Atlantic. The culture of the land, the people and the language very much informs my work.
I am also the manager of a long-running professional development project for writers living in Scotland.
Details of my first novel 'Far Inland' (Birlinn Polygon) can be found here:
http://peterurpeth.wordpress.com/far-inland-by-peter-urpeth-published-by-birlinn-polygon-edinburgh-2006/
Accomplishments
My first novel 'Far Inland' was published by Birlinn Polygon in 2006.
I won a Scottish Arts Council New Writers Bursary in 2002.
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