The Light Blue Book
500 Years of Gaelic Love and Transgressive Poetry
Peter MacKay editor Iain MacPherson editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Luath Press Ltd
Published:12th Dec '16
Should be back in stock very soon
This collection, covering 500 years of transgressive Gaelic poetry with new English translations, breaks the mould for anthologies of Gaelic verse. It offers poems that are erotic, rude, seditious and transgressive; that deal with love, sex, the body, politics and violent passion; and that are by turns humorous, disturbing, shocking and enlightening. In scholarly introductions in Gaelic and English the editors give contexts for the creation, transmission and value of these poems, as historical documents, as joyous – or tragic – works of art, as products of a culture and counter-cultures that have survived centuries of neglect, suppression or threats of being ‘burned by the hand of the common executioner’. After reading this book, you won’t think of Gaelic culture in quite the same way ever again.
ISBN: 9781910745472
Dimensions: 186mm x 144mm x 31mm
Weight: 380g
352 pages