In Mortal Memory Author:Andrew McNeillie Joyful, elegiac, and immediate, these lyric and often celebratory poems engage personal and natural history, nation-states and mental states, violence, religion, and poetry itself. An ecologically focused collection, each poem affirms life as all-becoming, dwelling on metaphors such as mountains and valleys, the changing seasons, and the vastnes... more »s of the sea. Divided into two partsSong in Winter,? a collection of unrepentantly self-indulgent verse, and At Sea,? containing extended tributes to George Campbell, W. S. Graham, J. M. Synge, and othersthese astonishing poems, taken as a whole, work against formalities while maintaining a fluid rhyming structure.« less