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Moder Dy

Roseanne Watt

From Shelf: Earth Day

Written in English, interspersed with Shetlandic dialect throughout, this eagerly awaited debut collection from Shetland poet Roseanne Watt contains profound, assured and wilfully spare poems that are built from the sight, sound and heartbeat of the land as much as from the sea.

Winner of an Eric Gregory Award, 2020

Winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, 2020

'The old Shetland fishermen still speak with something like reverence of the forgotten art of steering by the moder dy (mother wave), the name given to an underswell which it is said always travels in the direction of home'

Written in English, interspersed with Shetlandic dialect throughout, this eagerly awaited debut collection from Shetland poet Roseanne Watt contains profound, assured and wilfully spare poems that are built from the sight, sound and heartbeat of the land as much as from the sea. In rigorously controlled, concise, and vivid language Watt offers glimpses of the landscape alongside which we find the most complex and mysterious of human experiences.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
96
Publisher:
Birlinn General
ISBN:
9781846974878
Published Date:
23/5/2019
Dimensions:
195mm x 130mm x 5mm
Weight:
112g
Category:
Poetry by individual poets

RRP: £10.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9781846974878


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