in the Outer Hebrides
Poetry
(English & Gaelic)
Paperback
(80 pates)
ISBN: 0 86241 812 7
(1998)
This collection marks the arrival of a major new talent in Scottish poetry. Kevin MacNeil’s voice and vision, while rooted in the Hebridean islands, is open to a wide range of cultures, not only those of Scotland — from Gaeldom to urban Scotland — but to the wider European and American mind and, through his interest in Zen Buddhism, to Japanese and Chinese culture.
With
astonishing freshness and versatility, MacNeil’s poetry creates powerful
connections and new combinations — he has wit as well as feeling, a
powerful sense of the past and the local while being resolutely turned
towards the future and the cross-cultural.
The Quotes
"Not only
talented and dedicated, he is also original . . . finding and making a
literature in the clash and intersection of languages and cultures"
Andrew Greig
"If you
fancy a mixture of dancing logic, loving grace and cosmopoetic jazz, with
a lot of Hebridean hootchie-kootchie, including Harris rain coming down in
haikus and a skinkling of protogaelic Lewisian gneiss, not forgetting the
ever-loving old calidoneein antisysithing, this guy’s got it."
Kenneth White
"To meet
one so in tune with his languages and with his subject-matter, so young,
is a rare and special experience. At the beginning of his poetic career,
Kevin MacNeil is already in the uplands of achievement." Aonghas
MacNeacail
Kevin MacNeil - Bionote
A Little Borderless Village/Baile Beag Gun Chrìochan
