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Stranger in the Mask of a Deer, Paperback / softback Book

Stranger in the Mask of a Deer Paperback / softback

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Stranger in the Mask of a Deer conjures an elemental, dreamlike narrative ranging from the present to the Late-Upper Palaeolithic, when the British peninsula was gradually reoccupied by humans and animals returning from the greater continent after the Ice Age. Richard Skelton began this book-length poem many years ago with the intention of exploring the history of Britain's landscape, only for the text to transform into a kind of literary seance, involving both human and other-than-human voices.

Its transforming power lies in the accumulative magic of the word as ritual.

Skelton's is a mesmeric lyric, probing the edges of consciousness towards a place where 'there are always presences / always inherences / things beyond sight.''An incredibly moving, essential meditation on where we have come from, where we are, and where we are headed.'-Kerri ni Dochartaigh

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