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Francis Boutle Publishers, 2024. 123 pages. Paperback.
Statistically, the majority of children who suffer sexual abuse do so at the hands of a trusted family member – as often as not, a parent. How should you behave if the words “love”, “family”, “parents” do not carry the same meaning for you as for other people? All the more so if you are a poet, whose trade is words.
Christopher Whyte’s ninth collection challenges several of the most sacrosanct beliefs and taboos on which society is built – that children are safe in their parents’ hands, that the family is a suitable environment to bring them up in, that a child in difficulty will automatically find an adult prepared to intervene and rescue them. His poems make for uncomfortable if necessary reading, disarming while also profoundly disturbing in their frankness and their implications.
The Gaelic texts are accompanied for the first time by English translations from the author.
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