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Iona
Kenneth Steven
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Description for Iona
Paperback. This beautiful spiritual evocation of Iona blends inspiring photography, poetry, legendary tales and local stories to evoke the intricacies of the island's spiritual web. From half-explored coves and caves to seldom-visited glens and headlands, this photo guide explores sights unknown to even the most knowledgeable devotee of Iona. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKSH; HRCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 172 x 9. Weight in Grams: 278.
In this exciting and beautiful spiritual evocation of Iona, we find inspiring photography, brand new poems, tales recounting legends, local stories and Celtic passages from Adamnan – but there is much more to this wonderful book than a simple description of its elements can capture. It is a work of poetic, spiritual beauty. Evoking the intricacies of the island’s spiritual web, the book finds half-explored coves and caves, explores the names of certain seldom-visited glens and headlands and tells people who thought they knew everything about Iona things of which they had no knowledge.
In this exciting and beautiful spiritual evocation of Iona, we find inspiring photography, brand new poems, tales recounting legends, local stories and Celtic passages from Adamnan – but there is much more to this wonderful book than a simple description of its elements can capture. It is a work of poetic, spiritual beauty. Evoking the intricacies of the island’s spiritual web, the book finds half-explored coves and caves, explores the names of certain seldom-visited glens and headlands and tells people who thought they knew everything about Iona things of which they had no knowledge.
Product Details
Publisher
Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
282g
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780861538300
SKU
V9780861538300
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Kenneth Steven
KENNETH STEVEN is a highly popular Scottish writer, poet and broadcaster whose work is steeped in a love of Iona and the west coast of Scotland. IAIN SARJEANT is a thoughtful, frequently published photographer whose work evocatively complements the poetic approach of Kenneth Steven.
Reviews for Iona
‘…Steven has a talent for capturing the startling, original image . . . he is a fine, fine poet’
New Shetlander
‘this poet is a worthy successor to such greats as George Mackay Brown, Iain Crichton Smith and Norman MacCaig … he celebrates Scotland’s past and present without the least trace of sentimentality’
The Scots Magazine
‘Kenneth Steven has a ready sensitivity to the beauty of small moments.’
The Herald
New Shetlander
‘this poet is a worthy successor to such greats as George Mackay Brown, Iain Crichton Smith and Norman MacCaig … he celebrates Scotland’s past and present without the least trace of sentimentality’
The Scots Magazine
‘Kenneth Steven has a ready sensitivity to the beauty of small moments.’
The Herald