Sandy NicDhòmhnaill Jones is a versatile and intriguing new voice in Gaelic poetry. She has a home in South Uist and deep affinities with the Hebrides.
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.
Donald MacAulay is an outstanding and leading modern poet. This collection contains uncollected and unpublished work since his only other collection Seòbhrach às a’ Chloich appeared in 1967.
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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