This extensive selection of poems from 16 collections, in a dual-language format, brings to the attention of an even wider public the heady abundance of a truly audacious talent.
Myles Campbell has written a number of collections of poetry and, as his readers have come to expect, Eileanan is a stylish and emotive offering which deals with a variety of subjects from war to love, from technology to the Gaelic language itself.
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.
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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