Last Woman Born on the Island

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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The Last Woman Born on the Island is an exploration of the past and the present, and a celebration of the landscapes, bothphysical and emotional, that make up our lives. What are the colours of the language or languages we speak, and how dothey infl uence the ways we live?Much of this collection is set in the author’s homeland of Scotland. Some poems contemplate the history and traditions of theHighlands and Islands – from the HMS Iolaire disaster off Lewis in 1919 to the knitting of Eriskay ganseys, from the legend of the White Cow at Callanish stone circle to herring girls at the start of the twentieth century. Others consider Scottish languages and parlances, the country’s wildest and most beautiful landscapes, and the effects of tourism on the culture of the Hebrides.Is there is a diff erence between something lost and something merely forgotten? How do we fi nd what we don’t know we everhad? And what is belonging to a place, let alone to two places? In one long poem, the author stands between her home countryand her adopted country of France, letting her feet talk us through the places they have been. Who is the last woman andwhere is the island?

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Utgivningsdatum2022-09-26
Mått140 x 210 x 8 mm
Vikt138 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor104
FörlagVagabond Voices
ISBN9781913212346

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haron Black is from Glasgow and lives in a remote valley of the Cévennes mountains in France. Her poetry is published widelyand she has won many awards for her work including First Prizes in the Guernsey International Poetry Competition 2019 andThe London Magazine Poetry Prizes 2019 and 2018. Her collections are To Know Bedrock (Pindrop, 2011), The Art of Egg(Two Ravens, 2015; Pindrop, 2019), The Red House (Drunk Muse, 2022) and The Last Woman Born on the Island (VagabondVoices, 2022). She also has a pamphlet, Rib (Wayleave Press, 2021). Since 2016 she has been editor of Pindrop Press.

The last woman born on the island 5After a Reading by Jackie Kay 7Chickens 9Eggs 10Made the Small Way 11Tracks 13Room Six 15Passing It On 16Lucky Penny 17Spoon 18Lismore 19Heatwave 20The Lean Years 21Night Walk, Baile Mòr 23Fault Lines 24West Highland 25Instead of gulls 26Peace 27Sheela-na-gig 28Fly 29Cod Fishing, Firth of Clyde 30Ear 31Landbound 32Corvids 33The Dream 34Angling 36Collins Gem 37Bystander 38Prototype 39Middle C 40Hollows 42Monochrome 44Tobar na h-Aois 46Things That Can Be Thrown 47Forbidden 48The White Cow 49Hebridean 50Gardener 51Every time I step inside 52Post Op 53Eriskay Wives 54Plea to Boy on a Train 56First Keys 57Celia’s Shoes 58Thirty-Seventh View of Mount Fuji 59Death Trumpets 60Twelve 61Recipes 62Upper Cut 64Fourteen 65Seventeen 67Urination For Girls 68Cusp 70Feet 72Trefoil 78Love 79I would have liked 80Her Hair 82A Seat at Cailleach Farm 83Revisiting the Island 85Letter Home, 1920 86Light’s Tricks 88Notes 91Acknowledgements 93Prizes 94