Fire-penny
Publisher: University of Otago Press
Published: July 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781877372056
Subjects: Poetry & poets; Saint Kilda (Scotland); Poetry; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Australian & Oceanian
Description: Snapshot reconstructions of life on Scotland's remote St. Kilda Island - ancestral home of McQueens - open this tenth collection of poetry from Cilla McQueen. The spare life in this place of birds and sea and weather leads into a new set of poems from the poet's Bluff home: quiet observations in friends and animals, memories dreams - and weather. In a final section, 'A widow's songs' the poet mourns her late partner.