The Bone Library

Description

The Bone Library examines and interprets all of human life. The poems here respond to broader themes of identity, of place, of love and the unloved. Written in the old Dick Vet Bone Library during the author's time as writer in residence there, this is a vivid exploration that cuts to the very core of what it is to be alive. It is also a collection that is honest and carries with it, always, an undertow of elegy.

Jenni Fagan is an award-winning author, poet, screenwriter, essayist and a playwright, and was writer in residence at the University of Edinburgh. In 2013 Jenni was the only Scottish writer to be on Granta's Best of Young British Novelists list. She is the author of The Panopticon (2012), The Sunlight Pilgrims (2015) and her first poetry collection The Dead Queen of Bohemia was published by Polygon in 2016, followed by There's a Witch in the Word Machine (2018).

'Thrilling, original and unexpected. It promises to take the reader on an unforgettable adventure through the most intimate and haunted secrets of human life.' -- Toni Velikova, Scottish Poetry Library 'Thrilling, original and unexpected. It promises to take the reader on an unforgettable adventure through the most intimate and haunted secrets of human life' * Bookseller * 'Excels in moments of tenderness, tends to shine most in its wit' -- Stuart Kelly * The Scotsman * 'Stunning... the vocabulary alone is so vivid, so visceral, and we feel it in the poem that gives the book its title' * BBC Radio Scotland Afternoon Show * 'A stunning new collection' * Scots Magazine * 'As brilliant, as sensual, as vivid and as thought-provoking as all the rest of her poetry' * Ileach *