Lachlan MacKinnon's fourth collection opens with a gathering of
lyrics and descriptive poems: observing rites of passage (elegies,
wedding poems), offering nuanced accounts of places and their
patchwork afterlives (the Midlands, a Suffolk sketchbook), or
meditations on historical figures introspectively at odds with
their time (King Canute, Edward Thomas). This preoccupation with
contingency - personal and historical - opens onto The Book of
Emma: a long poem of fifty-four sections, written mostly in prose,
which address a lost friend and contemporary in terms which seem
laconically factual, but which draw their power from archaic
conventions (Egyptian, Celtic) of talking to the dead.
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