Marilyn Bowering

Gebundenes Buch

More Richly in Earth

A Poet's Search for Mary MacLeod

Beschreibung

Mary MacLeod was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland. A chronicle of travel through the Scottish Hebrides, More Richly in Earth explores MacLeodâ s life and legacy, preserved within landscape and memory. Marilyn Bowering forms an unlikely connection with MacLeod despite differences of culture and language, time and place.

Autor

Marilyn Bowering is a novelist, poet, and librettist; she is the author of four novels and numerous books of poetry. She is the winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Gwen MacEwen Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Prize, and the Dorothy Livesay Prize. She has been shortlisted for the Orange Prize, the Prix Italia, and the Sony Award. Her work has been translated into numerous languages including Spanish, Finnish, German, Romanian, Russian, Greek, and Punjabi. In a review of her novel What it Takes to Be Human the Globe and Mail said of her "[Bowering] does not seek moments to be brilliant: those moments just arrive." Marilyn Bowering lives in Victoria, BC.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 538g
• ISBN-13: 9780228021124
• ISBN-10: 022802112X
• Artikelnr.: 69514737