Madame Ecosse

Madame Ecosse is Marion McCready's highly anticipated second collection, a book of Scottish lyric poetry that ranges across the natural world, history, myth and women's experience over the centuries, alternating between political and personal registers.

Praised by Vicki Feaver for a "thrilling intensity" that recalls Sylvia Plath while retaining McCready's own distinctive lyric power, the poems have been called "a brilliant, bloody and bittersweet garden of verse" (Harry Giles) that examines Scotland through a feminist lens.

Fierce and tender by turns, they explore women as leaders, lovers and mothers, from the mythic past to the present day.