Fire-Penny

Snapshot reconstructions of life on Scotland's remote Kilda island -- ancestral home of McQueens -- open this tenth collection of poetry from Cilla McQueen. The spare life in the place of birds and sea and weather leads into a new set of poems from the poet's Bluff home, quiet observation on friends and animals, memories and dreams, and weather. Many of the reflective poems are conversational in style; one is written in the form of a play, and another appears at first to be a dictionary definition. The collection closes with a section entitled 'A Widow's Songs', in which the poet mourns her late partner.Cilla McQueen is the author of 'Fire-Penny', published 2005 under ISBN 9781877372056 and ISBN 1877372056.