It's nearly here!
It's been a long journey getting to this point with Look to the Crocus but I'm delighted with it.
Through the creating and editing process, the manuscript has gone through many shapes and forms like a snake shedding skin. The final result is a tripart collection: Flowers & Trees, The Long Water, and Mother Moon, and each section is prefaced with a quote from Theodore Roethke.
It contains my versions of Scottish ballads, close encounters with nature, my relationship with the Firth of Clyde, and elegies to my parents. The presiding poets include Roethke, Transtromer, Plath, W.S. Graham, Sujata Bhatt and D.H. Lawrence.
The cover art was created by Irish artist Brigid Collins after I met her in a special garden.
John Killick was central to bringing this book to publication and I'm hugely grateful for his support for my work.
4 comments:
Hari OM
Congrats, Marion - but have just tried searching for it via Shoestring/Central and by ISBN, but can't locate it... is it on sale yet? YAM xx e: yammacca[at]gmail[dot]com
Hi Yamini, thank you! No, it's not been printed yet - I'll get a print proof copy this week to check through and then it will go to print. Xx
Well done on getting this far! It looks lovely.
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Thanks Rachel, I was beginning to think I would never get to this point!! I'm delighted with the cover, the artist Brigid Collins does a lot of collaborative work with poets so I was pleased when she agreed to do a cover for my collection. xx
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