John Glenday's Selected Poems  collects the finest work from his previous five prize-winning collections.Here we see Glenday's major themes more clearly than ever: the sea, the spirit; our natural and human ecologies and how they interact, merge, or destroy each other; the transcendence that arises from the simple contemplation of the earth. But readers will also discover that Glenday is also a great poet of familial and romantic love, and an underrated and sly humourist and satirist.Like WS Graham and Denise Riley, Glenday is interested in the limits of language and speech - and what form the border between speech and silence, the knowable and unknowable, might take. This is an essential introduction to a key writer, and one of the finest Scottish poets of the age.