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Wednesday, October 18, 2023

And here it is!

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"In ‘Look to the Crocus’ Marion McCready truly and vitally does dwell in poetry and produces a work of both necessity, illumination and efflorescence as well as spiritual and aesthetic pleasure." ~ Richie McCaffery, The Bottle Imp, Association for Scottish Literature

"McCready is an intensely physical and embodied writer with a forensic gaze on the world around her" - Elizabeth Rimmer, Glasgow Review of Books

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"Scottish nationalist and feminist perspectives are refracted through a singular imagination drawn to the elemental... McCready is interested in the mysteries of birth and death, the mutability of matter, nature, myth, female experience and history as narrative of women's lives"

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Some of my Poems

Seven poems - POETRY Magazine / Poetry Foundation
I Did Not Know You, Moniack Mhor - Poetry Daily
Two poems - The Manchester Review
Meditations on Dunoon's Victorian Pier - The Manchester Review
Poem for a Garden - B O D Y
March Snow - London Grip
Lot's Wife - Transmission

Our Real Red Selves

"A collection that captures so vividly and viscerally the overwhelming experience - of the body and mind - in giving birth."

Vicki Feaver

"Her poetry imbues nature and natural processes with an eerie violence" - The National

3 poems from Our Real Red Selves

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Poetry Book Society

"You could say Marion McCready is a nature poet - but if so, this is nature poetry as it's rarely seen, less nature as a palliative, more red-in-tooth-and-claw."

Colin Waters, The Scotsman

"Marion McCready is a poet of bloody intensity and highly loaded, symbolic imagery."

Kirsten Irving, Sidekick Books

"any poet who describes the Firth as 'punk-black' has got to be doing something right"

David Clarke, Lunar Poetry

"A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of" - Stanley Kunitz

"a poet even as falling down the stairs, will observe his fall" - Miroslav Holub

"Poetry is the folktales of the mind" - Lorine Niedecker

"If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it." - Anne Carson

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