The Lightning Tree

Gillies, Valerie

ISBN 10: 0748663266 / ISBN 13: 9780748663262

Published by Polygon, 2002

About this Item

2002 Polygon first edition paperback; Very Good, clean and little-used ex-library copy, plate and usual stamps, in removable protective plastic sleeve; UK dealer, immediate dispatch.

Seller Inventory # 16469

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Lightning Tree
• Publisher: Polygon
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0748663266
• ISBN 13: 9780748663262
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

In this vibrant new collection, Valerie Gillies takes us on a journey across Scotland, exploring the inhabited landscape and the wild places. Locality presides as a powerful motif in a rich world of animals, birds, trees, and legendary beings such as the banshee and the Stone Woman of Craigencallie. Gillies´s verse, sustained by its precision of language and its depth of resonance, flourishes in an exuberance of poetic forms, from lyric to ballad, from sonnet to haiku. Central to the book is the story of the Lightning Tree, an oak in Sutherland struck by lightning. The following spring it recovers and four acorns grow as the tree revives. Gillies´s poetry -with its focus on nature and the harshness of rural life today -gives a rare insight into survival and recovery, into love and legend.

About the Author

Valerie Gillies has published six collections of poetry and won several awards and was recently shortlisted for the Scottish Arts Council "Creative Scotland Awards."