The Hammer and The Fire
Published on 1. November 2011
99 pages
978-0-85790-117-0 (ISBN)
Description
Following The Guidman's Daughter with his poems on Mary, Queen of Scots, Marsh begins this new collection with a sequence exploring the life and times of John Knox, locating this ambivalent figure in the turmoil of the Scottish Reformation. Marsh moves via Kepler and Darwin into a celebration of nature, searching within our secular world to 'find a language' to render its mystery and concludes by touching on the great challenges we now face. Our striving to understand the nature of things hints, perhaps, at the possibility of a different kind of redemption.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Birlinn General
File size
0,78 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-85790-117-0 (9780857901170)
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Henry Marsh was born in Broughty Ferry and now lives in Midlothian. He began writing on the death of a friend, a Gaelic Bard, Donald MacDonald of South Lochboisdale. His first collection of poems, A First Sighting, was published in 2,005. Seven other collections have followed, A Turbulent Wake (2007), A Trail of Dreaming (2009), The Hammer and the Fire (2011), Wayfarers (2011), Painted Trees (2012), A Voyage to Babylon (2013), and The Bedrock, poems on themes from the Great Tapestry of Scotland (2015).
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Contents
- The Hammer and the Fire
- Introduction
- At St Giles' Kirk
- George Wishart
- In the French Galleys
- Berwick
- By the House of Dun
- St John's Kirk, Perth
- The Reformation of Lindores Abbey
- Remembering the Field of Pinkie
- Loss
- Of the Monstrous Regiment
- De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
- In Thrall
- Sisyphus
- Bunty Wallace
- Edinburgh, 1572
- Gethsemane
- January, 2009
- Homecoming
- Origins
- Origins
- Oasis
- Kepler's Supernova
- Cognition of Torture
- The Mystery of Tides
- Harmony of the World
- Rainbows
- The Watch
- Lux
- Lumen
- Illumination
- Light and Water
- Dancing after Bees
- Thinking Path
- Sundew - Loch Druidibeg
- At Loch Crócabhat
- Black and White
- October 1st
- At the Window
- Marsh Thistle
- Like to Like
- Glen Esk
- By the Sound of Eriskay
- Stonechat
- Valhalla
- Kestrel
- Voyager
- Colonsay
- Rain-washed
- Dirt Tosser
- Trickster
- Belhaven Bay
- Mummy
- Beach at Smeircleit
- Drove Road
- Echidna by Three Pine Trees Quarry
- Handing On
- Sun-dust
- Lindisfarne
- Jupiter
- Wheelhouse - Cille Pheadair
- Eco Demo
- At the Royal
- Singularities
- Stroke
- Inheritance
- At South Lochboisdale
- Dandelion Clock
- Green Man in a Chapel
- Sky Lines - Otterspool Promenade
- For Charlotte
- Walking
- The Open Road
- Art Lesson
