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 This collection contains uncollected and unpublished work since his only other collection Seòbhrach às a’ Chloich appeared in 1967.
Approaching 2011, the centenary of Sorley MacLean’s birth, the Sorley MacLean Trust decided to invite some distinguished contemporary poets to write a commemmorative poem: the poems are gathered in this pamphlet.
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.
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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