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The Hammer and the Fire
Author(s): Henry Marsh (Author)
- Publisher: Maclean Dubois
- Publication Date: 1 May 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 98 pages
- ISBN-10: 0956527825
- ISBN-13: 9780956527820
Book Description
Following The Guidman s Daughter with his poems on Mary, Queen of Scots, Marsh begins this new collection with a sequence exploring the life and times of John Knox, locating this ambivalent figure in the turmoil of the Scottish Reformation. Marsh moves via Kepler and Darwin into a celebration of nature, searching within our secular world to find a language to render its mystery and concludes by touching on the great challenges we now face. Our striving to understand the nature of things hints, perhaps, at the possibility of a different kind of redemption.
Editorial Reviews
Review
'Henry Marsh's new collection of poems, The Hammer and the Fire (Maclean Dubois, £10), shows the poet s bardic sensitivity to the shades and moods of the Hebridean landscape, distilling a lifetime of observation in a phrase and in tidal shifts of metaphor and rhythm. Yet, emerging after a sequence of verses reflecting on the legacy of the Reformation, the gentle balm of these island poems reminds the reader that peace is usually broken before it is found.' --The Scotsman
About the Author
Henry Marsh was born in Broughty Ferry, Dundee in 1944. He now lives in Midlothian. His working life has been spent teaching English with a bit of philosophy. His Ph.D thesis is a study of the modes of imagination. He began writing poetry in 2000 following the death of a friend, a Gaelic Bard, Donald MacDonald of South Lochboisdale. Three collections of his work have so far been published A First Sighting, A Turbulent Wake and The Guidman s Daughter. http://www.henrymarshpoetry.co.uk
