Description
Product ID: | 9781846975004 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Bale Fire |
Authors: | Author: Jim Carruth |
Page Count: | 96 |
Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Bale Fire is a book in three cycles. The first explores the darker side of communities in decline. The middle is a transposition of elements and characters of the Odyssey to a Scottish hill farm and its neighbours. The final part looks at the idea of harvest and loss. Jim Carruth offers here both a celebration and an elegy. Bale Fire is a book in three cycles. The first explores the darker side of communities in decline. The middle is a transposition of elements and characters of the Odyssey to a Scottish hill farm and its neighbours. The final part looks at the idea of harvest and loss.Jim Carruth offers here both a celebration and an elegy. The poems in this collection address the themes of our time: war, friendship, honesty, violence, humanity and love. |
Imprint Name: | Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited |
Publisher Name: | Birlinn General |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-10-10 |