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    Cairn
    Cairn
    Cairn
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    Cairn

    By Richie McCaffery

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    Richie McCaffery's debut collection of poems, Cairn, begins in a dedication and ends with ghosts - in between lies hoards of artefacts and long-forgotten antiquities; a police whistle, a tarnished silver spoon, the bookmark lodged in a boring book decades before that sings of a lost age. These poems find their stories in the overlooked places of everyday, and take utter delight in the unexpected image and turn of phrase. Soaring, often short and bitter-sweet, the poems form markers in the landscape of love, lore and family, making mementoes to the buried and the living.
    Richie McCaffery (b. 1986) lives in Stirling and studies and works as a teaching assistant at The University of Glasgow. He is the author of two poetry pamphlets, Spinning Plates (HappenStance Press, 2012) and Ballast Flint (Cromarty Arts Trust, 2013). His poems have appeared in journals and anthologies such as The Dark Horse, Stand, The Rialto and The Best British Poetry 2012.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNine Arches Press
    Release dateAug 17, 2018
    ISBN9781911027539
    Cairn
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    Richie McCaffery

    Richie McCaffery divides his time between Ghent, Belgium where he lives with his Flemish wife and the UK. He has a PhD in Scottish literature from the University of Glasgow where he was a Carnegie scholar. Richie is the author of two poetry pamphlets - Spinning Plates (HappenStance Press) and Ballast Flint. In 2014 Nine Arches Press brought out his first collection Cairn. His essays on poetry have been published in places such as Studies in Scottish Literature, etudes Ecossaises, Scottish Literary Review and The Dark Horse. His poems have appeared in journals such as The North, Oxford Poetry, Ambit, The Times Literary Supplement and Magma.

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      Cairn - Richie McCaffery

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      Cairn

      Cairn

      Richie McCaffery

      ISBN: 978-0-9927589-1-2

      Copyright © Richie McCaffery, 2014

      Cover photograph © Eleanor Bennett

      www.eleanorleonnebennett.zenfolio.com

      All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, recorded or mechanical, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

      Richie McCaffery has asserted his right under Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.

      First published June 2014 by:

      Nine Arches Press

      Unit 14, Sir Frank Whittle Business Centre,

      Great Central Way, Rugby.

      CV21 3XH

      United Kingdom

      www.ninearchespress.com

      Printed in Britain by:

      imprintdigital.net

      Seychelles Farm,

      Upton Pyne,

      Exeter

      EX5 5HY

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      CONTENTS

      Dedication

      Ballast Flint

      School

      Late Red Admiral

      Wallet

      Last Lot of the Day

      St. Lawrence’s

      Press

      Album

      Police Whistle

      The Consul

      Spoon

      Bookmark

      Ash

      Salvage

      The Truth So Far

      Homecoming

      Step-father

      Saint Bavo

      Black Sheep Inn

      7 Pudden Wynd

      Old School

      Negatives

      Noughts and Crosses

      Miss Anderson’s Pen

      Brother

      Rust

      The Weight

      Cold Caller

      The Rapture

      Elizabeth Logan

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