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Bale Fire is a book in three cycles. The first explores the darker side of communities in decline. The middle is a transposition of elements and characters of the Odyssey to a Scottish hill farm and its neighbours. The final part looks at the idea of harvest and loss.

Jim Carruth offers here both a celebration and an elegy. The poems in this collection address the themes of our time: war, friendship, honesty, violence, humanity and love.



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'Carruth writes with ever increasing depth about the rural way of life – its many trials and drawbacks but also its lyricism'

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'These are poems that will last as long as the land and the people they grew from'

-- John Glenday

'This is a book of lucid and visionary power'

-- Bernard O’Donoghue

Bale Fire

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      Publisher Birlinn General
      Published 10 October 2019
      ISBN-13 9781846975004
      978-1846975004
      ISBN-10 184697500X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Bale Fire is a book in three cycles. The first explores the darker side of communities in decline. The middle is a transposition of elements and characters of the Odyssey to a Scottish hill farm and its neighbours. The final part looks at the idea of harvest and loss.

      Jim Carruth offers here both a celebration and an elegy. The poems in this collection address the themes of our time: war, friendship, honesty, violence, humanity and love.



      Trade Review

      'Carruth writes with ever increasing depth about the rural way of life – its many trials and drawbacks but also its lyricism'

      -- Lesley Duncan * Herald *

      'These are poems that will last as long as the land and the people they grew from'

      -- John Glenday

      'This is a book of lucid and visionary power'

      -- Bernard O’Donoghue

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