Tree Language

by MARION MCCREADY

Overview

Poetry. TREE LANGUAGE is told in shard-like poems of supreme richness and finely balanced darkness—variously shaped, whittled to a point, almost sharp enough to draw blood. And although this is a book spiked with brambles and skeletal branches, shot through with frost and fossilled with plant-bones, blood is the slick thread that sews together its themes and landscapes: war and personal tragedy, daffodils and poppies, Jerusalem, Scotland, colour and desolation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908998248
Publisher:	Continental Sales, Inc.
Publication date:	04/01/2014
Pages:	77
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Scottish poet Marion McCready was born in Stornoway and lives in Dunoon, Argyll. Her poems have been published widely including in Poetry (Chicago), Edinburgh Review, The Glasgow Herald and Be The First To Like This: New Scottish Poetry (Vagabond Voices, 2014). Her chapbook, Vintage Sea, was published by Calder Wood Press (2011). She won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2013 and won the Melita Hume Poetry Prize also in 2013. Her first full- length collection, TREE LANGUAGE, was published by Eyewear Publishing (2014).