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Genre/Form: | poetry Adaptations Poetry Poésie |
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Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Martin Shaw; Tony Hoagland |
ISBN: | 9781644450277 1644450275 |
OCLC Number: | 1119761811 |
Description: | viii, 140 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Cinderbiter -- Deirdre Remembers a Scottish Glen -- The Mansion of the Woods -- The Wild Man and the Monastery -- Bard-Come-a-Fire -- The Ruins of Timoleague Abbey -- Hut Talk -- The Stars -- The Girls of Llanbadorn -- Snow -- A Word to the Men -- Lament for the Four MacDonalds -- Fionn's Migrations -- Lament for Reilly -- The Turn in the Road -- The Black-Haired Lad -- Arran -- Blodeuedd of the Owl-Face -- The Yarrow Charm -- Crooked Stick -- Midhir's Invitation to the Fair Land -- Wise Morning -- The Horned Women -- The Owl-Court of Ifor Hael -- Who Will Buy a Poem? -- The Hermit's Hut -- The End of Things -- Praise to Arthur's Hidden Men. |
Responsibility: | versions by Martin Shaw & Tony Hoagland. |
Abstract:
Cinderbiter collects work originally composed and performed centuries ago in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, before notions of authorship were distinguishable from the oral traditions of myth and storytelling. Now, celebrated mythologist and storyteller Martin Shaw and award-winning poet Tony Hoagland have created dynamic, lyrically gorgeous versions of poems and stories from this Celtic tradition. In riveting shaggy narratives of fiends, fire, heroes, and heroines, in mysterious origin stories of Arthur and Merlin, and in haunting lyrics of elegy, praise, and heartbreak, these poems retain the rapturous supernatural imagination of the deep past, layered with the joy and sorrow of prayer and song. Shaw and Hoagland's collaboration revives a storehouse of Celtic culture, extending the life of this vital literature. Cinderbiter will plunge you deep into the romance of language and legend from which you'll emerge refreshed by contact with a wild, old imagination.
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