description: These are poems about men and boys: married men, self-sufficient men, wounded men, and men 'who own/the earth and love it'; poems about memory and time, set in school classrooms and muddy sports fields; and haunting, tender love poems.
language: English
title: Slattern
titlecomplete: Slattern
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 38
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Somerset Maugham Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Forward Prize
category: Best First Collection, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Saltire Society Literary Award
category: Scottish First Book of the Year
publisher: Pan MacMillan