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Trilogy of Scottish surrealist poetry with three Books of the Dead including a tree alphabet and sonnets on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. Follows The Nine of Diamonds (Bloodaxe, 2016).
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MacGillivray is the Highland name of writer and artist Kirsten Norrie. Her poetry and multi-disciplinary practice inhabits a rich artistic universe encompassing performance art, song-writing and the use of visual media such as sculpture and photography. She has published three books of poetry, The Last Wolf of Scotland (Pighog/Red Hen, 2013), The Nine of Diamonds: Surroial Mordantless (Bloodaxe Books, 2016) and The Gaelic Garden of the Dead (Bloodaxe Books, 2019). Her non-fiction work, Scottish Lost Boys (as by Kirsten Norrie), was published by Stranger Attractor/The MIT Press in 2018. She has taught at the Universities of Oxford, Cheltenham and Gloucester and Edinburgh College of Art. After living for many years in Edinburgh, she is now based in Oxford.
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Trilogy of Scottish surrealist poetry with three Books of the Dead including a tree alphabet and sonnets on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. Follows The Nine of Diamonds (Bloodaxe, 2016).
