In mortal memory /
Joyful, elegiac, and immediate, these lyric and often celebratory poems engage personal and natural history, nation-states and mental states, violence, religion, and poetry itself. An ecologically focused collection, each poem affirms life as all-becoming, dwelling on metaphors such as mountains and...
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Manchester [England] :
Carcanet,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; PART I : Song in Winter; Winter Song; Boozy Weather; Grief; How Deep is the Ocean?; High and Dry; Les Poètes maudits; i.m. Juliette Drouet; Love in the Language Room; Le Rêve; Solo in New York; Summer Reading; My Death; Mislaid; Trick Cyclist; At 'The Oystercatcher', Portmahomack; Literalist; Spring Campaign; The Rising of the Year; Hedger; Great Leveller; Internal Exile; Botanical Gardens Revisited; Nightjars; Arctic Terns; Anno Domini 2007; Summer Migrant; The Big Snow; The Wild Thorn; PART II : At Sea; Life-Line.
- The VoyageNight-Snow; from A Night on Whalsay; Netting the Scottish Fish; The Lilies of the Field; Casting; Synge-Song; O Vos Omnes; Commemoration; Cnut 2008; Aswim; In the Midst of Life; i.m.lah; Seaworthy; About the Author; Also by Andrew McNeillie from Carcanet Press; Copyright.