As is evident in this collection, Myles Campbell is aware of the division between community poetry and personal poetry. The two have always co-existed, but there never used to be such a gap between them.
The Gaelic songs and poems of Donald Mackillop, Berneray, Harris. Includes a unique and richly historical autobiographical account of life in the island of Berneray eight decades ago.
In 1940, in Barra in the Outer Hebrides, an 18-year-old woman, Flòraidh, is persuaded to leave her island home when she learns that her stepmother intends to marry her off to the local shopkeeper. She follows her enigmatic friend Lavinia to the city and changes her identity to Laura, like a butterfly, leaving her chrysalis behind, as they join the war effort.
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