Other Worlds : An Anthology of Scottish Island Poems
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1846975417
ISBN-13
9781846975417
Publisher
Birlinn General
Imprint
Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 5th, 2022
Print length
176 Pages
Weight
198 grams
Dimensions
12.80 x 19.80 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
PoetryPoetry anthologies (various poets)
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A highly accessible, perfectly poised anthology celebrating Scotland’s islands. Varying in length, form, music and intensity, these poems alternatively capture an almost abstract beauty while others depict the beauty of island life and relationships.
An island can be a source of escape or return, of solace or threat. In this anthology rich depictions of island flora and fauna sit alongside sightings of croft dwellers and ferry-lowpers. Expressions of affection and accounts of imprisonment and bereavement sit cheek-by-jowl with evocations of drowned sailors, corporeal and ghostly. Praise poems alternate with diary entries and holiday postcards. Others cover stretches of water: Corrievreckan, say, or the Minch. And while there is a recurring sense of island heritage, and of belonging, the poet''s feet need not be actively on island soil or on the deck of a fishing-boat.In Other Worlds editor Stewart Conn has sought poems to set readers'' hearts racing through a sharpening of memory or in opening new vistas and evoking new worlds and states of mind from Orkney and Shetland to the Hebrides, to Mull and Iona, Arran and Ailsa Craig; from St Kilda and Luing to Inchcape, the Torren rocks and the Isle of May.
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