The Bone Library

(Paperback)

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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 authors 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.

Reviews

'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, [and] 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 *

Author Bio

Jenni Faganis 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 Grantas Best of Young British Novelists list. She is the author ofThe Panopticon(2012),The Sunlight Pilgrims(2015) and her first poetry collectionThe Dead Queen of Bohemiawas published by Polygon in 2016, followed byThere's a Witch in the Word Machine(2018).