Nameless Country: Selected Poems

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...