Ross Wilson’s long-awaited first full collection explores the fault lines between highbrow and lowbrow, highlands and lowlands, high and low culture. Drawing on his experiences as a low paid nurse and as a schoolboy boxing champion, Wilson takes a line for a walk between production lines, life lines, railway-lines, dirt lines, touch lines, sword-lines and the wafer-thin line between civilisation and barbarism. Line Drawing is a tough-mindedness book with a tender-hearted, moving from violence towards the possibilities of love and compassion.