Scottish Makar Jackie Kay
as the wives of the great
might be described as Italy's The Waste Land
Due out 2nd February 2017 from Faber
This extensive and wide-ranging selection is taken from three collections of the poetry of one of France's most exciting writers of the twentieth century
The Arrow-Maker by D M Black arc Publications Scottish Makar Jackie KayIn The Arrow Maker, D. M. Black's sensitive attention to emotional states of mind, sometimes his own, sometimes those of others such as St. Augustine, Ezra Pound, Paul Celan or Jacques Brel, also extends to more public themes of war and climate change. As always, his forms are various, but there is a predominance now of poems spoken in a thinking voice that remembers the iambic pentameter without being subdued by it. In a final section, versions of