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1 online resource |
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Winter Moorings; Block: A Pulley Used in Running Rigging; Strong Lines; In the Wake of 'The Seafarer'; Words at Sea; Quay; Old Salt's Prayer; Trouvé: Rigg Bay; Machars: War & Peace; Laver Weed; Lafan; Island Hopping; By Ferry, Foot, and Fate; Lighthouse at Daybreak; Nightwatch; Critique of Judgement; On Looking into an Old Photograph; An English Airman's Death Recalled; 'The Sea goes all the way round the Island'; On the Rocks Road; Cormorant; Port Sheánia Revisited; Harbour Inn; On Not Sailing to St Kilda. |
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A Return of the NativeBlind; Requiem; Insomnia; Round About a Great Estate; Shore Leave; At the Landfill Site. |
| Summary |
Andrew McNeillie's most powerful collection to date returns to the subject of the sea and uses its immensity as a metaphor for fate. It celebrates the natural beauty of the British and Irish archipelago, following a northwestern trajectory from the Aran Islands to the Hebrides. The natural world is seen here in both its beauty and its indifference to human beings. From a version of "The Seafarer" to an elegiac play "for sounds and voices" that retells the story of an English airman drowned off Aran in World War II, these poems speak of lives and deaths across the reaches of history. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
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Poetry, Modern -- 19th century -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Poetry, Modern. |
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Literature. |
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Electronic books. |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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| ISBN |
9781847775306 : $14.99 |
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1847775306 : $14.99 |
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