'Pour me over ice smashed / like fallen birds' instructs one speaker to those who will bury her. Yet these honest, unsentimental poems find joy and lyricism in unexpected places: a defiant note left on a pew, a cherishing of the private 'width of my skies'. Here are lived realities of escaping abusive patriarchs and pious cruelties. "Morag Anderson writes bold poems of survival charged by constraint and release. She is a member of the poetry collective, Poets’ Abroad. As part of Hamish Matters, she performed at StAnza Poetry Festival 2020. She was shortlisted for the Bridport Poetry Prize 2019, won Over the Edge New Poet and the Clochoderick Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Popshot Quarterly, Skylight 47, Finished Creatures, Fly on the Wall, and The Scotsman as well as several anthologies. The relationship between land, sea, and people influences her writing. Morag Anderson is an emerging Scottish poet based in Highland Perthshire. Her poetry has appeared in Popshot Quarterly, Skylight 47, Fi Scottish poet Morag Anderson explores relationships and the damage people can do to each other in her debut chapbook: concealed violence, love and everything in between.
Scottish poet Morag Anderson explores relationships and the damage people can do to each other in her debut chapbook: concealed violence, love and everything in between.
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