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Stranger in the Mask of a Deer
About this book
Stranger in the Mask of a Deer conjures an elemental, dreamlike narrative ranging from the present to the Late-Upper Palaeolithic, when the British peninsula was gradually reoccupied by humans and animals returning from the greater continent after the Ice Age.Richard Skelton began this book-length poem many years ago with the intention of exploring the history of Britain's landscape, only for the text to transform into a kind of literary seance, involving both human and other-than-human voices. Its transforming power lies in the accumulative magic of the word as ritual. Skelton's is a mesmeric lyric, probing the edges of consciousness towards a place where 'there are always presences / always inherences / things beyond sight.'
'An incredibly moving, essential meditation on where we have come from, where we are, and where we are headed.'
Kerri nà Dochartaigh
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Table of contents
- COVER
- STRANGER IN THE MASK OF A DEER
- ALSO BY RICHARD SKELTON
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- FOREWORD
- BEGIN
- DARK
- CAST
- DREAM
- WAKE
- IT
- BEFORE
- SORROW
- STRANGER
- LAND
- TEACHER
- CAVE
- STORY
- FLIGHT
- HUNT
- ECHO
- MARKS
- AGAIN
- AFTERWORD
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS