The collected poetry of Iain Banks and Ken MacLeod
Iain Banks (Author) Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, The Wasp Factory, in 1984. He gained enormous popular and critical acclaim for both his mainstream and his science fiction novels. Iain Banks died in June 2013.Ken MacLeod (Author) Ken MacLeod was born on the Isle of Lewis and now lives in Gourock, Scotland. He has a postgraduate degree in biomechanics and worked for some years in IT. Since 1997 he has been a full-time writer. He is the author of seventeen novels, from The Star Fraction (1995) to The Corporation Wars (2018), and many articles and short stories. He has won three BSFA awards and three Prometheus Awards, and been short-listed for the Clarke and Hugo Awards. He was a Writer in Residence at the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum at Edinburgh University, and Writer in Residence for the MA Creative Writing course at Edinburgh Napier University. Ken MacLeod's blog is The Early Days of a Better Nation http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com His twitter feed is @amendlocke
[Banks's] verse is angry and rough, with phrases punctuated to
smithereens; it truly lives
*Sunday Telegraph*
Striking images and sharp insights . . . a chance to watch a writer
come into being . . . [Macleod's] style is more typically
reminiscent of Auden or MacNeice
*Scotsman*
Experimental and angry, studded with sex and violence, puns, myths,
gods and apocalyptic warfare. There's space for beauty too
*Telegraph*
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