This fourth collection of poetry by Christopher Whyte contains, among a number of shorter poems, a long sequence about a famous singer and two Requiems. Whyte writes elegantly and with great depth of feeling, often on very difficult subjects.
A collection of poetry, mostly written in Irish Gaelic, which is Gorman’s first language. There are also some poems in Scottish Gaelic, which have been translated from Irish Gaelic by the author himself.
This unique, heartfelt book brings vividly to life through raps, secular psalms, love poems and aphorisms the Gaelic experience as it was, as it is and as it might be.
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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