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Discover the ritualistic world of MacGillivray, a Scottish poet, singer-songwriter and visual artist of exceptional standing. Her debut poetry collection distills her multi-faceted artistic persona into a poetry of echoing, incantatory force. Written in a free verse that modulates between romantic shadow and performative revelation, the poems collide action and image into surprising combinations. From the lion "sick on honey heather" who is devoured by a horse from a George Stubbs painting, to a Wild West Rodeo at Loch Ness, MacGillivray twists the past into visceral new configurations. The work reflects her passion for the weird and wonderful legends which fill Scottish history, and the often surprising connections they make with sympathetic cultures, such as that of the Navajo, whose roaming skin-walkers meet Ernest Seton - the man reported to have killed the last wolf of Scotland - in a wildly atmospheric encounter. Voicing myths of origin that are both extraordinary acts of the imagination, and yet too strange to be entirely fictitious, MacGillivray's debut collection is an essential read.
Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: MacGillivray is a Scottish writer and artist. Her poetry inhabits a rich artistic universe encompassing performance art, song-writing and the use of visual media such as sculpture and photography. Her multi-disciplinary practice gives her words an imaginative scope which few young poets in the UK can rival. MacGillivray's work summons forth a pantheon of muses, outlaws and showmen from the dark corners of Scottish and American history, animating their world with an incantatory free verse that is shockingly contemporary and hauntingly ritualistic. The poems excavate passion and transgression with precision and sympathy, allowing the reader to witness history from surprising new angles. Under her birth name Kirsten Norrie, she has a Doctorate in Performance and Scottish Identity, for which she studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University. Her thesis is titled Cloth, Cull and Cocktail; Anatomising the Performer Body of 'Scotland'. The wealth of academic research she undertook as part of this finds further expression in her debut collection, The Last Wolf of Scotland. This work treads a fine line between surreal reality and imaginative abstraction, in order to trace the violence through which national mythologies are forged and perpetuated, from the wilderness of the Scottish Highlands to the piratical showmanship of the wild west. Her poetry has been published in ASLS New Scottish Writing and Magma; her art criticism in Performance Research and several editions of Art Monthly. She has performed alongside writers such as Alan Moore, Don Paterson, Brian Catling and Iain Sinclair. The Last Wolf of Scotland will be published in October 2013.
Titel: The Last Wolf of Scotland (Pighog Full ...
Verlag: Pighog 01/10/2013
Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good
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