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Snapshot reconstructions of life on Scotland's remote St Kilda island -- ancestral home of the 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 on friends and animals, memories and dreams, and weather. Many of the reflective poems are conversational in style; one poem is written in the form of a play, and another appears at first to be a dictionary definition. Even the simplest of topics, such as eating cake or meeting a newborn baby, are taken by McQueen and transformed into thoughtful works.
The collection closes with a section entitled A Widow's Songs, in which the poet mourns her late partner.
Pages : 64
Publisher : Otago University Press
Publication date : 2005-07
Subjects: Fiction, Published in New Zealand, NZ Poetry, NZ Poetry By Individual Poets