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Highland Boundary Fault Emma McKervey

13.00

Paperback: Poetry 72 pages
ISBN: 9781913598563

“McKervey is sharp as winter. Her poems of Scottish folklore, myth, family and strange Back cover of poetry collection Highland Boundary Faultbeasts, came at me like howling winds, lifting me up and down the highlands, islands, coasts, caves, lochs and bogs of history and imagination. This is a tonic of a book – rattling, cleansing, energising. Over and over again, Highland Boundary Fault transforms the ordinary past into the sphere of the magical and the darkly medicinal.”
Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Poet & Editor

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Highland Boundary Fault is a daring and immersive odyssey that draws the reader into a mesmerising medley of myth, history, art, and a love story that travels from the Outer Hebrides to the Scottish mainland. The wild landscapes of the Highlands, the shipyards of Greenock on the Clyde estuary, the ancient worlds of story, are peopled by a cast of characters who are both archetypes, and flesh and blood,fantastical and familiar, their endeavours
and struggles awakening our deepest memories and longings.