Eating thistles : poems by /
Drawing on Scottish and Irish Gaelic poetry and other literary and folk traditions, 'Eating Thistles' transplants, transforms and re-imagines contemporary and historical events through Aesopian language, slipping between history, myth and memory - Syria, St Kilda, the Sudan, Latin American...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ripon :
Smokestack Books,
[2019]
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| Summary: | Drawing on Scottish and Irish Gaelic poetry and other literary and folk traditions, 'Eating Thistles' transplants, transforms and re-imagines contemporary and historical events through Aesopian language, slipping between history, myth and memory - Syria, St Kilda, the Sudan, Latin American dictadura and the mass-executions by the SS of Soviet Jews, Roma and prisoners of war. |
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| Physical Description: | 102 pages ; 20 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781999674298 1999674294 |