Bøker av David Tallach

These poems are the result of a protracted bereavement, the more so as the writer's Aunt Elizabeth developed early-onset Alzheimer's and gradually lost her faculties in a manner very painful to her and her relatives. Now that she has passed away, these are written to comfort particularly the writer's mother and Uncle Cameron, her remaining siblings, and to encourage them in the hope of heaven. It is also hoped they may help others who have lost relatives.

The author of this novel lived in Aberdeen for 20 years, and it is very much a celebration of the city, especially places in the centre he knew well. Focusing on the lives and loves of four students over one year, it follows the changing seasons (wet to wetter)of the Granite City. The cover shows Marischal College, part of Aberdeen University, adjoining Upperkirkgate.

This is a collection of haiku in praise of a bumblebee species native to Scotland, bombus lapidaries, so it seemed apt to render it in Scots. The poems alternate between Scots and English, the latter roughly translations of the former, following the four seasons.

These poems were written in 1998 due to a bereavement. My Uncle Fraser, an unusual, talented and remarkable man by any standards, passed away from cancer. These poems were written in the sure and certain hope of meeting with him again in heaven, and also celebrating the Highlands that we shared and loved.