More Richly in Earth: A Poet's Search for Mary MacLeod

by Marilyn Bowering

Mary MacLeod (M iri nighean Alasdair Ruaidh) was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland. While her lyrics were honoured, she was also marginalized, denigrated as a witch, and exiled, both for being a writer and for what she wrote. Presented as a chronicle of journeys through the Scottish Hebrides, More Richly in Earth explores MacLeod's legacy, preserved within landscape, memory, and identity. In an act of recovery and restoration,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022802112X
• ISBN13: 9780228021124
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.7"