In this collection Marsh moves via Kepler and Darwin into a celebration of nature, searching within our secular world to ?find a language' to render its mystery and concludes by touching on the great challenges we now face. Following The Guidman's...
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In this collection Marsh moves via Kepler and Darwin into a celebration of nature, searching within our secular world to ?find a language' to render its mystery and concludes by touching on the great challenges we now face. Following The Guidman's Daughter with his poems on Mary, Queen of Scots, Marsh begins this new collection with a sequence exploring the life and times of John Knox, locating this ambivalent figure in the turmoil of the Scottish Reformation. Marsh moves via Kepler and Darwin into a celebration of nature, searching within our secular world to ?find a language' to render
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; The Hammer and the Fire; Introduction; At St Giles' Kirk; George Wishart; In the French Galleys; Berwick; By the House of Dun; St John's Kirk, Perth; The Reformation of Lindores Abbey; Remembering the Field of Pinkie; Loss; Of the Monstrous Regiment; De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium; In Thrall; Sisyphus; Bunty Wallace; Edinburgh, 1572; Gethsemane; January, 2009; Homecoming; Origins; Origins; Oasis; Kepler's Supernova; Cognition of Torture; The Mystery of Tides; Harmony of the World; Rainbows; The Watch; Lux; Lumen
IlluminationLight and Water; Dancing after Bees; Thinking Path; Sundew - Loch Druidibeg; At Loch Crócabhat; Black and White; October 1st; At the Window; Marsh Thistle; Like to Like; Glen Esk; By the Sound of Eriskay; Stonechat; Valhalla; Kestrel; Voyager; Colonsay; Rain-washed; Dirt Tosser; Trickster; Belhaven Bay; Mummy; Beach at Smeircleit; Drove Road; Echidna by Three Pine Trees Quarry; Handing On; Sun-dust; Lindisfarne; Jupiter; Wheelhouse - Cille Pheadair; Eco Demo; At the Royal; Singularities; Stroke; Inheritance; At South Lochboisdale; Dandelion Clock; Green Man in a Chapel
Sky Lines - Otterspool PromenadeFor Charlotte; Walking; The Open Road; Art Lesson