One Last Tango
Carol McKay is a storyteller supreme. She draws you in with these poems, into a world view that is at once calm and incisive and punchy. Her reflections on family weave from jeopardy to love to loss – and always back to love. Much of her work here is everyday: tiny acts, unseen and unrewarded; Remembrance Day in a supermarket aisle; the way Arran disappears in cloud. She is immediate, writes with such clarity, and her poems are beautiful.
(Charlie Gracie, poet)
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