Stranger in the Mask of a Deer

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Stranger in the Mask of a Deer

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Author: Richard Skelton

Type: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9781908058843

Date: 21st June, 2021

Publisher: PENNED IN THE MARGINS

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  2. Archaeology
  3. Individual Poets
  4. Aspects Of Religion

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Stranger in the Mask of a Deer conjures an elemental, dreamlike narrative ranging from the present to the Late-Upper Palaeolithic, when the British peninsula was gradually reoccupied by humans and animals returning from the greater continent after the Ice Age. Richard Skelton began this book-length poem many years ago with the intention of exploring the history of Britain's landscape, only for the text to transform into a kind of literary seance, involving both human and other-than-human voices. Its transforming power lies in the accumulative magic of the word as ritual. Skelton's is a mesmeric lyric, probing the edges of consciousness towards a place where 'there are always presences / always inherences / things beyond sight.' 'An incredibly moving, essential meditation on where we have come from, where we are, and where we are headed.' Kerri nì Dochartaigh

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