num_pages: 64
description: The centrepiece of Stewart Conn's collection is a sequence of poems inspired by Renoir's famous painting The Luncheon of the Boating Party. Complementing these and other poems set vividly in southern France are evocations of people and places in his native Scotland and elsewhere. Stewart Conn can be wrily self-deprecatory one moment and startlingly moving the next, and in these new poems he manages to combine delicacy of perception with urgency of expression.
language: English
title: The Luncheon of the Boating Party
titlecomplete: The Luncheon of the Boating Party
characters: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
ratings_count: 25
places: France, Scotland
publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd