Publisher's Synopsis
Dawn Wood,originally from Omagh, Co. Tyrone moved in Scotland in 1986 and lives in Perthshire. After a career in science lecturing, she now works as a hypnotherapist, artist and poet. Dawn Wood's third collection, takes inspiration from the Hebrew of Genesis and the Psalms, using motifs of water - spring, river, cosmic ocean - and an ark. These poems are drawn from meditations on persistent, carved symbols of language. The reader is invited to imagine with Utnapishtim - the flood-hero of Gilgamesh - his boat; to sail deeper into a dream-world where the meaning of things slip past, almost unnoticed, were it not for certain interruptions - the gleaming of days, the scent of gorse, the bark of an old dog, thundering from a Cathedral pulpit, below a ceiling shaped like an upturned boat.
