Nameless Country: Selected Poems

By A C Jacobs

Nameless Country gathers poems by the Scottish-Jewish poet Arthur "A.C." Jacobs, whose work, somewhat critically neglected in the past, has gained new resonance for twenty-first-century readers. Writing in the shadow of the Holocaust, Jacobs in his poems confronts his complex cultural identity as a Jew in Scotland, as a Scot in England, and as a diaspora Jew in Israel, Italy, Spain and the UK.

A self-made migrant, Jacobs was a wanderer through other lands and lived in search, as he puts it, of the "right language," which "exists somewhere / Like a country." His poems are attuned to linguistic and geographic otherness and to the lingering sense of exile that often persists in a diaspora. In his quiet and philosophical verse we recognise an individual's struggle for identity in a world shaped by migration, division and dislocation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784106755
• ISBN13: 9781784106751
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Northern House
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.3"