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In Mortal Memory is a collection of lyric poems, celebratory if often melancholy, both elegiac and ironic. Affirming that life is ‘all becoming’ McNeillie mourns what that means in terms of loss and sorrow at time passing. The sea is a powerful presence, its meaning drawn both from the northern landscapes in which McNeillie’s work is rooted, and from the work of French poets, from Baudelaire and Hugo to Rimbaud and Corbière. The poems pitch up and down across formalities, against the idea of purity, while sustaining a rhyming, singing line. Cover painting: Giorgio de Chirico, The Nostalgia of the Poet,1914. Oil and charcoal on canvas, 35 5/16 x 16 in. (89.7 x 40.7cm). The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice1976,76.2553.65 © DACS 2009. Cover design StephenRaw.com

Table of Contents:
Contents: Part I: Song in Winter Winter Song (i)Chanson d’hiver (ii)Road Closed (iii)Winter (iv)The Shadow of a Blackbird (v)O Wood! (vi)February Song (vii)Les Feuilles d’automne (viii)Uneven Song (ix)Tidings (x)Spinney Boozy Weather Grief How Deep is the Ocean? High and Dry Les Poètes maudits i.m. Juliette Drouet Love in the Language Room Le Rêve Solo in New York Summer Reading My Death Mislaid Trick Cyclist At 'The Oystercatcher', Portmahomack Literalist Spring Campaign The Rising of the Year Hedger Great Leveller Internal Exile Botanical Gardens Revisited Nightjars Arctic Terns Anno Domini 2007 Summer Migrant The Big Snow The Wild Thorn Part II: At Sea Life-line The Voyage Night-Snow from A Night on Whalsay Netting the Scottish Fish The Lilies of the Field Casting Synge-Song O Vos Omnes (i)Baudelaire: 'Quelques caricaturistes français' (ii)Homage to K.D. (iii)i.m. Donato di Niccolo Donatello (iv)i.m. Sion Hill (v)End of the Line… (vi)Alms and the Man (vii)Bedside Reading (viii)Spleen et idéal Commemoration Cnut 2008 Aswim In the Midst of Life i.m.lah Seaworthy

About the Author :
Andrew McNeillie was born in 1946 in North Wales and brought up there, a son of the Scottish writer Ian Niall. After an unconventional start, he read English at Magdalen College, Oxford, before becoming a publisher and editor. For a key period in his life, he was literature editor at Oxford University Press. He is the founding editor of the magazine Archipelago (2007-) and runs the Clutag Press (now in its twenty-sixth year). His memoir An Aran Keening was published by the Lilliput Press, Dublin, in 2001 and reissued in 2025. Once: A Memoir came out from Seren in 2009. Striking a Match in a Storm: New & Collected Poems was published by Carcanet in 2022. A prequel to his Aran memoir, News of the World: from Rhydamman to Inishmore appeared from Lilliput in 2025.

Review :
'McNeillie's special gift is for providing the pleasure that comes from recognition: we can see ourselves in his poems.' - Rory Waterman, TLS, 20 August 2010


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781847779199
  • Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Carcanet Poetry
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1847779190
  • Publisher Date: 25 Feb 2010
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 72


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