Margaret Tait – Subjects and Sequences

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Artist / Author: Margaret Tait

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Subjects and Sequences is one of Margaret Tait’s self-published poetry books. This is a rare, out-of-print ‘interim edition’. The book collects dozens of Tait’s poems, spanning the 1950s, a few of which first appeared in The Orkney Herald and The Voice of Scotland. LUX has a small number of copies of this and other rare Tait poetry volumes, to complement the recent Subjects & Sequences: A Margaret Tait Reader (also available through the shop). Please note, all copies are in excellent condition but have some slight yellowing of their pages due to age. All copies will be sent by registered post. THEN, OH THEN, OH THEN You are a bird and you chant through my life Cool as instinct You are my childhood Thyme tincture and coppersmith Lustless Red flowers on the bare Pale white tree where the egrets were Tree that before leaves came had Large red flowers Cottonwood No! Silk-cotton tree For when the fruit fell after the leaves formed Flaming flowers had ripened soft seed-down Secure and essential Useful for the honey-sucker’s nest The tree the flowers the song Were there before continue now I absent Coincidences punctuate Slur and stress our separate activities.

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