Nettles, Nazaret Ranea

From mediations on long-distance love to elegies for labouring workers, Nazaret Ranea’s debut poetry collection explores what it means to honour our roots while creating a life on our own terms and rediscovering meaning in the natural world. Nazaret was born in Málaga, Spain, and has been based in Edinburgh since 2017. Named one of Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makars, her poems have appeared in more than fifty publications worldwide. “These are poems that imagine much we are not ‘meant’ to see or feel – the eye of a humpback whale, a face persisting lifelessly in a death mask, the stinging welts from nettles – alongside the domestic, the familial made strange, through silences, repetitions.  They are powerful poems, and unnerving ones” – Peter Mackay, Scotland’s Makar

Published by Drunk Muse Press
Softcover
76 pages
150 x 210 mm
ISBN 9781738542499