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.
A metaphysical dialogue in verse between the Irish poet Diarmuid Johnson and the Scottish poet Maoilios Caimbeul. Diarmuid writes in Irish Gaelic and Maoilios replies in Scottish Gaelic.
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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