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poetic panorama
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real life incident
ritualistic imagination
Robert McGee
Santa Fe
scalp
Scottic imaginary
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Wild West
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- ISBN 9781906309664
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 181g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 16 Nov 2017
- Publisher: Pighog
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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1864. In a Santa Fe gulley, scalped Scots thirteen-year-old Robert McGee lies bleeding to death. The Last Wolf of Scotland is his dream, etched onto the plate of pioneer America, his scalp lock speaking back to him, a hallucination projected in a near-death cinema.
This shocking real-life incident is our point of departure into the ritualistic imagination of MacGilivray. In this, her first collection, she dissects the Scottish imaginary and builds it up anew, creating a poetic panorama which stretches from the Highlands to the Wild West.
MacGillivray has walked in a straight line with a dead wolf on her shoulders through the back streets of Vegas into the Nevada desert, eaten broken chandelier glass in a derelict East German shopping mall, headbanged in gold medieval stocks in Birmingham allotments, burnt on a sunbed wearing conquistador armour in Edinburgh's underground city, breast-fed a Highland swan in Oxford and regurgitated red roses in Greenland. She remains the clan chief.
