Another Seeing and other poems
by Lucilla Maclaren Spillane
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Pub Date 8 Oct 2013 | Archive Date 15 Nov 2013
Troubador Publishing Ltd. | Matador
Description
The sixty poems in Lucilla Maclaren Spillane’s collection are written with a keen eye for detail and draw on her wide range of experiences in several countries. Written in traditional form and with an ear for harmony, they are memorable and easy to read. The poems range from the deep understanding she shows in Another Seeing, through the beauty of ‘The Lake’ in Wisconsin, ‘The Fountain’ in Oxford and ‘Street Lamps’ in Malta to the stark humanity of ‘The Beggar,’ ‘The Widow’ and ‘A Lonely New Year.’ 'Lift Off!’ re-creates the tension of a Space Shuttle Launch; ‘Dragon’ the secret fears of a child with epilepsy; ‘No Time to Die,’ the redemption of an alcoholic; ‘Sunday Bells,’ the frustrations of the writing process; whilst ‘Haggis Night,’ vividly depicts the fabled Hogmanay Hunt for Haggis in the Highlands of Scotland.
Some of the poems in this collection deal with disabilities, including the author’s own epilepsy. The poems will provoke thought on the broader implications of disability and on the way others respond to it. The notes to the poems contained within this volume also give the poems added depth and interest, explaining how and where they were inspired and what it was that prompted her to write each of them. The afterword explores her influences, philosophy and beliefs with regard to poetry.
Advance Praise
Lucilla Maclaren Spillane's nature poems, such as "The Curlew" and "The Butterfly," often have the vibrancy of fresh perception, conveying an almost childlike sense of wonder derived from close observation. And there is commonly the suggestion of something deeper-such as an emotional connection, as in "The Secret Place," or a spiritual perception, as in "Listening for Silence."
In her poems about individuals, too, she insists that we pay closer attention-to the beggar with no legs, the widow neglected in old age, and others. And she has the courage to share her own past experience, of physical disability and struggle due to epilepsy, in an intense and revealing poem called "Seizures."
There is much in this collection that invites re-reading-and prompts readers to appreciate more intensely their own experience in both the social realm and the natural world.
by John E. Hallwas, Professor Emeritus, Western Illinois University
'Lucilla Maclaren Spillane has a wide-ranging lyrical voice, expressing rare sensitivity to the natural world and its creatures and changing moods, and the perceptive human being's response to them. Her poems are well-crafted and often arresting. Another Seeing will have wide appeal to lovers of the well-tuned poetic voice'.
by BARRY SPURR. Professor of Poetry and Poetics, THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
‘I enjoyed reading Lucilla’s poems, and like to think I can hear in a number of them the sort of spare, lyrical tone that bewitches me in Housman, or later in Ian Hamilton Finlay. They are poems with a seductive, unsettling and timeless musicality.’
by Dr. Lilias Fraser, Edinburgh
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Ebook |
| ISBN | 9781783068982 |
| PRICE | £4.99 (GBP) |
