Description
Book SynopsisThese poems are alive with electricity, pulsating with a frequency that vibrates throughout.
In a journey from there to here, The Bone Library examines and interprets all of human life. Throughout the collection Jenni Fagan responds to broader themes of identity, of place, of love and the unloved.
Written in the old Dick Vet Bone Library during the author’s time as writer-in-residence there, this is a vivid exploration that is honest and searching and cuts to the very core of what it is to be alive.
Trade Review'Thrilling, original and unexpected. It promises to take the reader on an unforgettable adventure through the most intimate and haunted secrets of human life.'
-- Toni Velikova, Scottish Poetry Library
'Thrilling, original and unexpected. It promises to take the reader on an unforgettable adventure through the most intimate and haunted secrets of human life'
* Bookseller *
'Excels in moments of tenderness, [and] tends to shine most in its wit'
-- Stuart Kelly * The Scotsman *
'Stunning... the vocabulary alone is so vivid, so visceral, and we feel it in the poem that gives the book its title'
* BBC Radio Scotland Afternoon Show *
'A stunning new collection'
* Scots Magazine *
'As brilliant, as sensual, as vivid and as thought-provoking as all the rest of her poetry'
* Ileach *
'Powerful and gritty writing that reflects many aspects of twenty-first century life'
-- Peter B. Freshwater * University of Edinburgh Journal *
