Fetch

‘A wonderfully confident debut, alert to the faint absurdity of writing poems … Bramwell ranges well beyond the comic. Scottish dialect poems have a weight and purity (glossaries are provided).’ Suzi Feay, Financial Times

‘By turns solemnly tender, comically worldly, literarily devout … Bramwell’s poetics convey an uncanny sense of wisdom, patience and, eventually, peace.’ Oluwaseun Olayiwola, The Guardian

‘Bramwell’s debut is just fun to read. There is a musicality to his language, a willingness to embrace form when it suits and shed it when it doesn’t, that kept me coming back to read a few more poems before bed every night’ Literary Hub

‘I have been through his new book Fetch repeatedly, because it is lyrical, tragic, comical and above all, one can taste the effort: the sonnets from Rome have lines that will stay with me forever.’ Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman

‘I love Fetch, not because Bramwell’s abandoned literary tradition but because he’s found a way of making that tradition feel new and now. The book is erudite without being academic, Scottish without being parochial and funny without ever using humour as an escape from feeling.’ James Hartley, Madrid Review

Colin Bramwell’s poetry has been published widely in major poetry magazines and in his pamphlet The Highland Citizenship Test. He was the runner-up for the 2020 Edwin Morgan Prize, and his translations have won the John Dryden Translation Competition and the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize. From the Black Isle, he now lives in Edinburgh.

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