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You may recognise the artwork featured on this book jacket! It first appeared in “For A’ That: A Celebration of Burns, an anthology of writing made in response to the work of Robert Burns, published by University of Dundee Press (2009) and deigned by Tim Bremner (http://www.bremnerdesign.co.uk), as an illustration for a story called “The Secret Lake” by Kirsty Gunn (http://www.kirsty-gunn.com) who co-edited the anthology with Anna Day. An illuminated box-construction, it was beautifully photographed by Angus Bremner (http://www.angusbremner.com) and is now part of the private collection of Kirsty Gunn.
The atmosphere evoked – of what is so often a contradictory tension between the lure of uncharted territory and the warmth and familiarity of the hearth that represents so much of what we associate with home – seems as perfectly suited to the title of this new anthology “Songs of Other Places” as it was for that of Kirsty’s compelling short story…