The Gaelic Garden of the Dead by MacGillivray Bloodaxe Time is the echo of

Time is the echo of an axe

Published in association with the Wordsworth Trust

Hymn to the Reckless

From poem to poem

At the book’s centre is a series of intimate

The Gaelic Garden of the Dead by MacGillivray Bloodaxe Time is the echo ofThe 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