Book description
 Andrew Greig is a Scottish poet of sensitivity and resilience. He
deals with high-risk situations Â- from mountaineering to love Â- and
is particularly good at presenting the gamut of feelings involved in
rites of passage: high endeavour, commitment, holding back, drift,
release' Â- Edwin Morgan  A writer of integrity and imaginative
energy' Â- TLS Â A lyric poet of rare gusto' Â- The Observer Alongside
the mountain poems from Men on Ice, Order of the Day and Western
Swing, Getting Higher features brand new material, facsimiles of
previously unpublished material Â- including his first poem, written
in 1972 Â- and illustrations and material from the National Library of
Scotland archive. A beautiful collector's item full of illustrations,
marginalia and notes.
Andrew Greig was born in Bannockburn in 1951 and raised in the Fife
town of Anstruther. His first book was the poetry collection White Boats
and his novel, In Another Light, won the Saltire Society prize in 2004.
He has also had success with mountaineering titles, including Summit
Fever and the mountain poetry collections Men on Ice and Surviving
Passages. In 1996 The Return of John Macnab was shortlisted for the
Romantic Novelists' Association Award. Greig is a former Glasgow
University Writing Fellow and SAC Scottish/Canadian Exchange Fellow. He
studied Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh and held a number of
part-time jobs before turning to writing. He now lives in Edinburgh and
Orkney, and is married to author Lesley Glaister.
