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Men on ice
Being the story of 3 Climbers and... another. Dedicated to Dougal Haston, Climber. Poetry and verse.
64 pages, Hardcover
First published April 24, 1977
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Andrew Greig
56 books85 followersAndrew Greig is a Scottish writer who grew up in Anstruther, Fife. He studied philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and is a former Glasgow University Writing Fellow and Scottish Arts Council Scottish/Canadian Exchange Fellow. He lives in Orkney and Edinburgh and is married to author Lesley Glaister.
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January 2, 2024Men on Ice: A Poem Sequence
Scottish mountain climbing poetry from the 1970s.
Various blurbs from the internet-
Andrew Greig’s 1977 mythic Mountain Quest poem Men On Ice became a cult read among climbers. It led to him being asked to climb on real Himalayan expeditions...
'Men on Ice’ - a book of poems with a distinctly Zen take on mountaineering, both physical and metaphorical.
External and internal "mountainclimbing," more or less in the vein of Rene Daumal. There is an "unseen" climber pictured variously as a bear and a bare breasted woman in open parka. Occult stuff.
And-
... He told me he had written a poetry collection called Men on Ice. The images were about climbing in high altitude, and facing the wonders and dangers of it. But it was really about men's relationship to women in modern times. Quite a few years before we shared that moment of drink, he had met an experienced climber, Mal, in that same pub: "Andrew, you really know what climbing is about - to the bones! Your book Men on Ice was right on target."
Scottish mountain climbing poetry from the 1970s.
Various blurbs from the internet-
Andrew Greig’s 1977 mythic Mountain Quest poem Men On Ice became a cult read among climbers. It led to him being asked to climb on real Himalayan expeditions...
'Men on Ice’ - a book of poems with a distinctly Zen take on mountaineering, both physical and metaphorical.
External and internal "mountainclimbing," more or less in the vein of Rene Daumal. There is an "unseen" climber pictured variously as a bear and a bare breasted woman in open parka. Occult stuff.
And-
... He told me he had written a poetry collection called Men on Ice. The images were about climbing in high altitude, and facing the wonders and dangers of it. But it was really about men's relationship to women in modern times. Quite a few years before we shared that moment of drink, he had met an experienced climber, Mal, in that same pub: "Andrew, you really know what climbing is about - to the bones! Your book Men on Ice was right on target."
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