Bookworm, no. 59

Alexandra Oliver on Marilyn Bowering’s “More Richly in Earth.” Alexander Sallas reviews Dave Margoshes’s “A Simple Carpenter.” Poetry by Lyn Butler Gray. Inside the September issue.

Scotland Bard

More Richly in Earth: A Poet’s Search for Mary MacLeod
Marilyn Bowering
McGill-Queen’s University Press
282 pages, hardcover and ebook

Màiri nighean Alasdair Ruaidh—better known as Mary MacLeod—was a seventeenth-century Jacobite and exiled poet. She served as a bard in a noble household, composing songs in Gaelic that encompassed the heroic, th…