Far-Flung

Far-Flung traverses multiple terrains—home and upheaval, our connection to the environment and to people, our relation to the past, place and placelessness. From 'the Kilmog slumping seaward' to 'the bracts and the berries and the leaves' of the Mackenzie country, the moth ('courier of bloom powder'), the wind that grows like an animal and 'the great loneliness / of grass'—Gallagher is in conversation with the natural world. Her lyric poems, marked by attentiveness, have an earthy, intuitiv...