By Elizabeth Burns
\nISBN 978-0-9928946-2-7
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This elegantly crafted sequence of poems about Scottish painter Anne Redpath displays Elizabeth Burns\u2019 sensitivity to colour, place and time as she contemplates the life of the artist.<\/p>\n
\u2018She writes with a painterly richness.\u2019 Poetry Wales<\/em><\/p>\n
‘there is a feeling of substance and time-well-invested when reading this collection of ten short poems, and there is also a\u00a0sense that Burns is delving much deeper than most ekphrastic poetry we see nowadays’.\u00a0Richie McCaffrey,\u00a0londongrip<\/em><\/p>\n
\nTweed<\/em><\/h4>\n
She remembered her father weaving\u00a0tweed \u2013
\na thread of scarlet running through grey.<\/p>\nIn her Border landscapes, the frosty grass
\nis lime-yellow, verges sea-green, violet
\nand here\u2019s the orange and plum-coloured earth
\nof Kyleakin, a lilac sea at Pittenweem<\/p>\nand here, red slippers from a fairytale
\nset on an Indian rug with blue leaves,
\na green flower becoming a bird
\nand the bright red berries.<\/p>\n
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