| Contents |
No ruined stone -- Primer -- Dramatis personae -- The bard. Ae fond kiss -- Voyage -- Another life -- Landscape -- Dear Gilbert, -- River Ayr -- The hour of dream -- Dear Gilbert, -- For promised joy -- Bard -- Douglas's reply -- Dear Gilbert, -- Tam O'Shanter -- Augur -- Crumbo-jingle -- Fate -- Rising -- Springbank -- Genealogy -- Tutu gb[backward c]vi -- Isabella. Memory -- The Bard, Edinburgh, 1825 -- Story, the first -- Springbank -- Woman in an Edinburgh drawing room -- Husband, -- Passing -- Chance -- Husband, -- Ae fond kiss -- Husband, the truth is -- Inheritance -- In the field -- To a mouse -- At the hour of duppy and dream, Miss Nancy speaks -- Holyrood, 1826 -- The choice -- Voyage -- The prophet and God's complaint -- No ruined stone. |
| Abstract |
"No Ruined Stone is a verse sequence rooted in the life of 18th-century Scottish poet Robert Burns. In 1786, Burns arranged to migrate to Jamaica to work on a slave plantation, a plan he ultimately abandoned. Voiced by a fictive Burns and his fictional granddaughter, a "mulatta" passing for white, the book asks: what would have happened had he gone? Historically-based poems explore an alternate past of Robert Burns and the troubling facts about Scottish slavery in Jamaica"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: McCallum, Shara, 1972- No ruined stone Farmington, ME : Alice James Books, [2021] 9781948579438 |
| Genre/form | poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| Genre/form | Poésie. |
| LCCN | 2020045538 |
| ISBN | 9781948579193 paperback |
| ISBN | 1948579197 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
