Cairn
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Cairn

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Cairn

About this book

Richie McCaffery's debut collection of poems, Cairn, begins in a dedication and ends with ghosts - in between lies hoards of artefacts and long-forgotten antiquities; a police whistle, a tarnished silver spoon, the bookmark lodged in a boring book decades before that sings of a lost age. These poems find their stories in the overlooked places of everyday, and take utter delight in the unexpected image and turn of phrase. Soaring, often short and bitter-sweet, the poems form markers in the landscape of love, lore and family, making mementoes to the buried and the living.

Richie McCaffery (b. 1986) lives in Stirling and studies and works as a teaching assistant at The University of Glasgow. He is the author of two poetry pamphlets, Spinning Plates (HappenStance Press, 2012) and Ballast Flint (Cromarty Arts Trust, 2013). His poems have appeared in journals and anthologies such as The Dark Horse, Stand, The Rialto and The Best British Poetry 2012.

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Information

Publisher
Nine Arches Press
Year
2018
Print ISBN
9780992758912
eBook ISBN
9781911027539
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

CONTENTS

Dedication
Ballast Flint
School
Late Red Admiral
Wallet
Last Lot of the Day
St. Lawrence’s
Press
Album
Police Whistle
The Consul
Spoon
Bookmark
Ash
Salvage
The Truth So Far
Homecoming
Step-father
Saint Bavo
Black Sheep Inn
7 Pudden Wynd
Old School
Negatives
Noughts and Crosses
Miss Anderson’s Pen
Brother
Rust
The Weight
Cold Caller
The Rapture
Elizabeth Logan (1837 - 1839)
Bottle-digging
Arrival
Ink
The Professional
Plimsolls
Buttons
Seaside Hotel
Sampler
Edelweiss
In Praise of Sash Windows
Tesserae
Moon
X
Ivories
The Lonesome Death of Brian Connolly
Viv
Gil Martin
Pevsner Guides
Ties
Warkworth
Barney
Spinning Plates
The Lean-to
Sighting
Acknowledgments
Nothing corrects
the haircracks in the crockery.
– Alan Riach

DEDICATION

In an underground copy
of Lady Chatterley’s Lover
a shaky plum inscription:
‘To Renee, my sweet –
from France via the Dunkirk
holocaust, 2/8/40, Sid’
All that way in a kitbag,
through panzers and ...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. Ballast Flint
  7. School
  8. Late Red Admiral
  9. Wallet
  10. Last Lot of the Day
  11. St. Lawrence’s
  12. Press
  13. Album
  14. Police Whistle
  15. The Consul
  16. Spoon
  17. Bookmark
  18. Ash
  19. Salvage
  20. The truth so far
  21. Homecoming
  22. Step-father
  23. Saint Bavo
  24. Black Sheep Inn
  25. 7 Pudden Wynd
  26. Old School
  27. Negatives
  28. Noughts and Crosses
  29. Miss Anderson’s pen
  30. Brother
  31. Rust
  32. The Weight
  33. Cold Caller
  34. The Rapture
  35. Elizabeth Logan (1837 - 1839)
  36. Bottle-digging
  37. Arrival
  38. Ink
  39. The Professional
  40. Plimsolls
  41. Buttons
  42. Seaside Hotel
  43. Sampler
  44. Edelweiss
  45. In Praise of Sash Windows
  46. Tesserae
  47. Moon
  48. X
  49. Ivories
  50. The Lonesome Death of Brian Connolly
  51. Viv
  52. Gil Martin
  53. Pevsner Guides
  54. Ties
  55. Warkworth
  56. Barney
  57. Spinning Plates
  58. The Lean-to
  59. Sighting
  60. Acknowledgements