Product Description: Andrew McNeillie's sixth collection returns to the sea and its immensity as a metaphor for fate. It also revisits the British and Irish archipelago ('For which read a figure for my heart. / For which read too a figure for time's hurt'), following a north-western trajectory from the Aran Islands to the Hebrides...read more

Product Description: Conducting a journey from boyhood to manhood, this is the revealing autobiography of poet Andrew McNeillie. From an airplane crossing north Wales, the middle-aged writer looks down on the countryside of his childhood in this fascinating memoir, recalling an almost fabulous world now lost to him...read more

Product Description: These evocations of wilderness and the natural world draw on the author's experience living for a year on Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland. In the tradition of William Butler Yeats, the poems look to Celtic traditions, are sometimes formal in structure, rely on straightfoward and striking language, and change in mood from joy to rage to elegy...read more

The author's memoir of the year he spent living on one of the Aran Islands in 1968 celebrates the simplicity of island life and the dramatic physical landscape he experienced while living on these isolated islands off the coast of Ireland.

Product Description: Nevermore is an elegy for lost times and threatened things. It celebrates recollection and the "immortality of youth", and youth's passions: for natural history (as in the group of bird poems entitled "Plato's Aviary"), for the naive curiosity and lust of adolescent "love", for adventuresome escape (as in the docu-poem rhapsody "Lines from an Aran Journal"), and for the elusive prize of poetry itself...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Collects articles and book reviews by the English novelist

Collects articles and book reviews by the English novelist

Collects articles and book reviews by the English novelist (view table of contents)