Slate, Sea and Sky, Norman Bissell

Slate, Sea and Sky (Luath Press) is Norman Bissell’s first poetry collection, written in his native Glasgow and on the Isle of Luing, one of the slate islands of Scotland’s west coast. The poems journey from city streets to the ocean’s edge, telling stories from these two different worlds.

His interest in the need for radical cultural renewal prompted him to found and lead the Open World Poetics group from 1989 to 1999 and to become the director of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics from 2002 until present.

The poems are accompanied with photographs by documentary photographer Oscar Marzaroli, who moved to Glasgow from Castiglione, Italy at age two.