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A Swan's Neck on the Butcher's Block

A Swan's Neck on the Butcher's Block

by Jenni Fagan

Imprint: Birlinn

5.1 x 7.8 in

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9781846976766
January 2025
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9781788856805
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The new collection from one of Scotland’s most original voices.

Jenni Fagan converses with the poets of the past; through them, she communes with demons and explores a world that is continually at odds with itself.

The poet voyages, as ever, on the outskirts, calling out the nuances of class, of care, of misogyny and brutality. Yet even here, too, in her response, there is always love, humour, hope and defiance.

From one of Scotland’s most original voices, this collection places the poet’s life under the microscope. Each line brims with verve and wit and absolutely soars. It is, at once, heartbreaking and haunting, visceral and challenging and full of raw passion. These poems sing like only someone who has traversed the most arduous roads, pen in hand, can.

Jenni Fagan is an award-winning author, poet, screenwriter, essayist and a playwright, and was writer in residence at the University ofEdinburgh. In 2013 Jenni was the only Scottish writer to be on Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists list. She is the author of The Panopticon(2012), The Sunlight Pilgrims (2015) and her first poetry collection The Dead Queen of Bohemia was published by Polygon in 2016.

tender, witty and visceral, finally a new collection from the critically acclaimed poet Jenni Fagan' ~The Bookseller

The mercurial spirit behind Luckenbooth and Hex delivers a transfixing collection of poetry, mining themes of identity, place and love' ~Waterstones Says

A brilliant poetry collection which completely blew me away, focusing on the emotional impact of abuse but still managing to be hopeful and uplifting' ~Irvine Welsh

ranging brilliantly across themes from the deeply personal to the fiercely political; and linking both worlds with an intensity that offers a rare depth of feeling, and a searing truthfulness, about how it feels to live in our time' ~Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman