Seahorse Publications
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The Department of Stuff & ThingsMy life is enriched by experiencing the world through Jo Gilbert’s utterly unique, gritty perspective and voice. In Doric Scots and English, she sets the ‘Stuff and Things’ of life e.g. clothes, crockery, shopping, nature, our militant pursuit of ‘so-called’ novelty life-enhancing experiences, at a jaunty angle. In poems such as Lingerie, which begins ‘Surely sadists inventit the thong?’ and You were right about Mars ‘we arrived on the Moon, fucked it up, moved to Mars, then FUBARed her, history repeating’ she cleverly weaves tear-streaming laughter with sugar-punches of pathos that begs us question the world we have made and the existential threats we’re now facing. A compelling and byordinar collection!
(Lesley Benzie, poet)
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Native River
In this collection, Macfarlane ‘swims through galaxies’. These clear-eyed poems honour the sacredness of everyday; showing us how the smallest moment or observation (a salmon leap, a sparrow, newborn mouse, a boy in red trainers) might be framed for greatness. With intricacy of form and voice, these poems are deft negotiations between nature and human-made; between species; between past and present; Scots and English (and – with heart-rending effect – both, in ‘Going back’); the body and the elements. Macfarlane offers us meeting points of river, grassland, city, garden, hill and field – where connection and recovery are possible, alongside acknowledgements of difficulty and loss.
(Rebecca Sharp, writer)
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The Department of Stuff & Things
My life is enriched by experiencing the world through Jo Gilbert’s utterly unique, gritty perspective and voice. In Doric Scots and English, she sets the ‘Stuff and Things’ of life e.g. clothes, crockery, shopping, nature, our militant pursuit of ‘so-called’ novelty life-enhancing experiences, at a jaunty angle. In poems such as Lingerie, which begins ‘Surely sadists inventit the thong?’ and You were right about Mars ‘we arrived on the Moon, fucked it up, moved to Mars, then FUBARed her, history repeating’ she cleverly weaves tear-streaming laughter with sugar-punches of pathos that begs us question the world we have made and the existential threats we’re now facing. A compelling and byordinar collection!
(Lesley Benzie, poet)
£10.00£10.00Add to basket
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Native River
In this collection, Macfarlane ‘swims through galaxies’. These clear-eyed poems honour the sacredness of everyday; showing us how the smallest moment or observation (a salmon leap, a sparrow, newborn mouse, a boy in red trainers) might be framed for greatness. With intricacy of form and voice, these poems are deft negotiations between nature and human-made; between species; between past and present; Scots and English (and – with heart-rending effect – both, in ‘Going back’); the body and the elements. Macfarlane offers us meeting points of river, grassland, city, garden, hill and field – where connection and recovery are possible, alongside acknowledgements of difficulty and loss.
(Rebecca Sharp, writer)
£10.00£10.00Add to basket
