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Madame Ecosse / Marion McCready.
Van Pelt Library PR6113.C37473 M33 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCready, Marion, author.
- Series:
- Paperback poetry
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--Scottish authors--21st century.
- English poetry.
- English poetry--Scottish authors.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 86 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Eyewear Publishing, 2017.
- Summary:
- Marion McCready's highly-anticipated second book, Madame Ecosse, is a very Scottish collection. Political and personal by turns, it brims with evocative poems exploring history, myth, nature, and the female experience across the centuries. Rarely has writing been so lyrical, and yet so startling - expressing the passionate, sometimes brutal, extremes of love's sorrow and beautiful strangeness. Brimming over with poems that are fierce and tender, subtle and strong, sensuous and sensual, celebratory and mournful, this collection delights, moves and inspires. In work that is both experimental and true to tradition, McCready draws on nature, myth and history to explore the lives of women as leaders, lovers and mothers down through the ages to the present day. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Redwood Avenue I: Women of the Avenue 9
- Rose Hips and Thistles 10
- Selfie 11
- Death of a Tulip 13
- Twilight Sleep 15
- Mary Stuart 18
- Burning The Stump 25
- Degas' The Tub 27
- Lot's Wife 29
- The Un-Mother 33
- Night Poinsettias 34
- Redwood Avenue II: Sierra Redwoods 35
- Madame Ecosse 36
- Women of Trident: Poem for Three Voices 38
- Night Crossing 44
- Death of a Snowman 45
- Daphne and the Sitka Spruce 48
- Dinner 49
- The Spoon Carver's Wife 50
- Apple Trees 52
- Heartbeat 54
- Birthing a Waterfall 55
- She Lay Down Deep Beneath the Sea: Meditations on Dunoon's Victorian Pier 57
- Polphail Village 60
- Signs 62
- Redwood Avenue III: Crossing 64
- September is Not the Birth of Things 65
- Magpies 67
- Car Crash 69
- Shadows 70
- The Owl Girl 72
- Birth Mother 74
- Lindow Man 76
- How Temporary the Snow Is 78
- Poem for a Garden 80
- Iceland Poppies 84.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the David Milne Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1911335219
- 9781911335214
- OCLC:
- 980232841
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