Moder Dy Mother Wave

Winner of an Eric Gregory Award, 2020  Winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, 2020 'The old Shetland fishermen still speak with something like reverence of the forgotten art of steering by the moder dy (mother wave), the name given to an underswell which it is said always travels in the direction of home' Written in English, interspersed with Shetlandic dialect throughout, this eagerly awaited debut collection from Shetland poet Roseanne Watt contains profound, assured and wilfully spare poems that are built from the sight, sound and heartbeat of the land as much as from the sea. In rigorously controlled, concise, and vivid language Watt offers glimpses of the landscape alongside which we find the most complex and mysterious of human experiences.

ISBN:	9781846974878
Publisher:	Birlinn Ltd
Imprint:	Polygon
Published date:	23 May 2019
DEWEY:	821.92
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	18997
Number of pages:	xii, 83
Weight:	112g
Height:	128mm
Width:	197mm
Spine width:	13mm

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