Barearse Boy John McKeown Though diverse

Though diverse

poems by Girgis Shukry

] There is a great deal of vitality and versatility among the younger generation of emerging poets in the country’s capital

• Giuseppe Belli

Barearse Boy John McKeown Though diverseJon Taits family have lived in the hills of the Anglo Scottish borders for at least six hundred years. He is a direct descendent of a notorious seventeenth century reiver family who lived in Barearse near Yetholm in Scotland, rustling cattle, burning farms and putting their neighbours to the sword. In this modern take on Scotts Border Minstrelsy, Tait follows the reiver people as they are forced from their rural heartlands into the industrial and post