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Book SynopsisCome and meet some wild men and tame beasts. Explore the fleeting moment and capture the passing of time in these portrait studies which document a year''s journey. Travel across Scotland with poet Valerie Gillies and photographer Rebecca Marr: share their passion for a land where wild men can sometimes be tamed and tame beasts can get really wild. Among the wild men they find are a gunner in Edinburgh Castle, a Highland shepherd, a ferryman on the River Almond, an eel fisher on Loch Ness, a Borders fencer, and a beekeeper on a Lowland estate. The beasts portrayed in their own settings include Clydesdale foals, Scottish deerhounds, Highland cattle, blackface sheep, falcons, lurchers, bees, pigs, cashmere goats, hens, cockerels, tame swans and transgenic lambs.
Trade ReviewGoin aroon the Borders wi Valerie an' Rebecca did my reputation the world o good. It's no often they see us wi beautiful talented women, ye ken. WALTER ELLIOT, fencer and historian
These poems are rooted in the elemental world. - ROBERT NYE, reviewing The Chanter's Tune in The Times
Valerie Gillies is one of the most original voices of the fertile avant-guarde Scottish poetry. MARCO FAZZINI, l'Arco, Italia
The work of Valerie Gillies and Rebecca Marr is the result of true collaboration based on insight, empathy and generosity. JULIE LAWSON, Studies in Photography
Rebecca Marr's photos never fall into the trap of mere illustration, but rather they show a very individual vision - creative interpretation rather than prosaic document. ROBIN GILLANDERS, photographer
Table of ContentsIntroduction Men Tam the Gun Black Cat Boy Geologist Gordon Skinny-Dipping Archie and his Flock Hill Lambing Aik an Birk Straw Angus Jockey Falconer Owl Calls Fieldwalker The Farrier's Here Tom and Finn Bee-Keeper The Bantam-Man Michaelon the Cape of Stones Iain's Salmon Surfer The Lioness and Her Men
