Don Roberto, The Adventure of Being Cunninghame Graham Thomas Kabdebo

Don Roberto, The Adventure of Being Cunninghame Graham Thomas KabdeboIt would be impossible to invent Don Roberto today a fantastic combination of Don Quixote and Sir Gawain, Indiana Jones and the Lone Ranger. He was so multi faceted, so complex, that every chapter in his story reveals some new and contradictory aspect of his personality. He is best known as the co founder, with Keir Hardie, of the Scottish Labour Party, and later as the founding president of the Scottish National Party. But in a long and extraordinary

or vividly within nature

polyvocal style which combines life-writing with poetic prose

her paint box – all so evocative of her life

set in a Lebanese mountain village

music and writings

control and beauty of image – demonstrate the power of the best poetry to speak of difficult things in a way that enlightens

both redemptive and heartbreaking

draughtsman

and philosophy

Taking its title from the myth surrounding St Bridgid's flame in Kildare

Robert Welch

and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award