Knockan by Jim Carruth award winning It’s a real treat discovering

It’s a real treat discovering long lost Neruda poems that do not disappoint

  Despite the fact that My Life as Painter is his 12th collection

In searching for the light within it

and influenced by his poetry

in several directions: inwards

Knockan by Jim Carruth award winning It’s a real treat discoveringIn remote Assynt, where the past is recreated from rock and bone, a crofter and her estranged daughter search for some common ground in their annual week together. Rooted in the landscape and history of North West Scotland, this beautifully written and heart breaking novel in verse is an original and powerful exploration of how our lived experience weighs on us, intimately told through the fracturing and repair of a mother and daughter relationship.