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we see the arc of development in her writing over twenty-five years as she visits and revisits the concerns that are the mainstay of her writing: memory

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The Pot of Earth and the Iron Pot by Ruth McIlroy F Starik we see the arc ofI was happy being machine when round the bend beside a stream was birdsong happening in the trees. Ruth McIlroy is a poet of the tilting world. Her lyrics are charged with immediacy and proceed off kilter in the revelation of familiar experience as unfamiliar and normality as something quite other. There is much here, directly and indirectly, of heroic Gaelic song, both ancient and modern, conveying humour, darkness and arresting beauty executed with