The Light Blue Book: 500 Years of Gaelic Love and Transgressive Verse

Peter Mackay; Iain S. MacPherson

The Light Blue Book: 500 Years of Gaelic Love and Transgressive Verse

Peter Mackay
, Iain S. MacPherson (Editor)

Modern Languages and Linguistics Research

University of St Andrews

Research output: Book/Report › Anthology › peer-review

Abstract

This collection, covering 500 years of transgressive Gaelic poetry with new English translations, breaks the mould for anthologies of Gaelic verse. It offers poems that are erotic, rude, seditious and transgressive; that deal with love, sex, the body, politics and violent passion; and that are by turns humorous, disturbing, shocking and enlightening. In scholarly introductions in Gaelic and English the editors give contexts for the creation, transmission and value of these poems, as historical documents, as joyous – or tragic – works of art, as products of a culture and counter-cultures that have survived centuries of neglect, suppression or threats of being ‘burned by the hand of the common executioner’. After reading this book, you won’t think of Gaelic culture in quite the same way ever again.

Original language	English
Publisher	Luath Press
Number of pages	320
ISBN (Print)	978-1910745472, 1910745472
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 12 Dec 2016

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The Light Blue Book: 500 Years of Gaelic Love and Transgressive Verse

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Displaced poets: migrant writing from the margins of movement and memory in a diasporic and transgressive Scottish Gaelic context

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Displaced poets: migrant writing from the margins of movement and memory in a diasporic and transgressive Scottish Gaelic context

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