The Gaelic Garden of the Dead by MacGillivray Bloodaxe Hymn to the Reckless

Hymn to the Reckless

Time is the echo of an axe

the same feel of bits of frightened

we encounter highwaymen

From poem to poem

The Gaelic Garden of the Dead by MacGillivray Bloodaxe Hymn to the RecklessThe Gaelic Garden of the Dead is three Books of the Dead bound as one. This trilogy comprises an alphabet of trees spoken as witness to a Highland hanging, ten pattern poetry dream diagrams and thirty five death sonnets deconstructed to Mary Queen of Scots. Saturated with the languages of arboreal myth, magic and folklore in Gaelic culture, the first book, The Gaelic Garden of the Dead is a forest quartet whose letters enunciate in the imagery of