description: This book sees Robin at his engaging best. He is a warm, articulate, witty and engaging storyteller in live performance, and here he`s collected some of his own retellings of tales ancient, old, and not so old. The illustrations are evocative too, complementing the text beautifully. Robin has his own offbeat way with a tale or an anecdote, or a bit of shaggy dog whimsy, and some of these tales and poems have an open-ended quality - like life,like the man himself.my pleasure is to know him. This is a lovely book to own and to dip into, and I can`t help hearing Robin`s idiosyncratic Scottish burr in my mind as I read these pieces. I think, that not only his ebullience and madcap wit, but the fact that you can easily hear every word he speaks or sings. You can almost hear it in this book of wonders too. Listen,and listen closely for the tales and poems lose nothing in printing them but better still see Robin in live performance-joy that adds no sorrow with it.
language: English
title: The craneskin bag: Celtic stories and poems
titlecomplete: The craneskin bag: Celtic stories and poems
genres: Poetry, Mythology
ratings_count: 12
publisher: Canongate