What ties you to a place – memories, landscape, family, language?
“With intricacy of form and voice, these poems are deft negotiations between nature and human-made; between species; between past and present; the body and the elements.” Rebecca Sharp, poet
“These are poems of joy and discovery, petal-soft, that ask us to bear witness to the large and the small. These are poems of survival, poems for all.’ Morag Anderson, poet
Pre-order: Seahorse Publications
“Bright in character and rich in language, this wonderful debut collection expertly examines fragments of evidence of the inner workings of the world.” Andy Jackson, poet and editor
Available from Seahorse Publications
To read some of my poems published online:
How to pick an apple Bioregioning Tayside’s Imaginarium
Grief moves like a glacier Consilience Issue 20
My face won’t be found in folk still to come Raising the Fifth
Kittiwake Briefly Write
Destiny o Stane New Boots and Pantisocracies
Evolved for flicht, but no much and Chap it aff Eemis Stane Issue 3
Literary magazine publications include Poetry Scotland, The Poets’ Republic, The Alchemy Spoon, Dreich, Spelt Magazine, Obsessed With Pipework and Pushing Out the Boat.
Anthologies: Perthshire 101, Glimmer and Glisk
Poems on Public Art is a project that combines a love of ekphrastic poetry with my habit of dragging my husband to look at art whenever we’re on our travels.
Here you’ll find poetry by me and guest poets which is inspired by (but not necessarily about) artwork, across the world, that can be viewed without payment. Roddy Mathieson’s 2000 sculpture (above) is called Sanctuary and can be found at Lochephort on the island of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. It was the artwork that inspired the project and is still one of my favourite pieces of public sculpture.
Karen Macfarlane 