Longlisted for the 2025 Highland Book Prize
Dwell Time, the full-length debut collection from award-winning poet Taylor Strickland, begins from the idea that ‘dwelling’ requires both place and the experience of ‘being-in-the-world’. In taking us from the US to Scotland to Portugal, Strickland interrogates this central notion, along with ideas of non-place and environment, to explore our contemporary experience of love, language, technology, and spirituality. Ultimately these are poems that advocate for a world against isolation, one in which we go beyond our own witness to embrace another’s, and shrink the distance between us.
Taylor Strickland is a poet and translator from the US. His book ‘Dastram/Delirium’ was 2023 Scottish Poetry Book of the Year and a PBS Translation Choice. His work has featured in Poetry London, the TLS, and the New Statesman, amongst others, and has been translated into Irish and Italian. He lives in Aberfeldy with his wife, Lauren, and daughter, Eimhir.