Poems [2015] hardback Condition:New But this is the first

But this is the first time it has started talking to him

and shuffling

but also of personal anguish

And Yaz is different

Drawing these threads together

Poems [2015] hardback Condition:New But this is the firstIain Banks is celebrated as a novelist and science fiction writer. It is less well known that his first published work was the poem '041', in New Writing Scotland in 1983. Like the poems that appeared within his novels, this was selected from the many he had written between 1973 and 1981. Banks took his poetry seriously and worked on it assiduously, but showed it mostly to friends. He first thought of publishing his poetry late in 2012, though