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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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CONTENTS
DEDICATION
Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Ballast Flint
- School
- Late Red Admiral
- Wallet
- Last Lot of the Day
- St. Lawrenceās
- 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 Andersonās 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
- Acknowledgements