Where the River Meets the Sea
John Mackie is a local who has returned to his “homeland”—as he puts it in his poem “Where the River Meets the Sea,” he has “circled” back to Moray “like the Arctic Terns of the Spey.” Through the example of his father’s relationship to the Spey, in this poem, he considers the persistent dilemma of...
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| Format: | Book Part |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton University Press
2016
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691167480.003.0003 |
| Summary: | John Mackie is a local who has returned to his “homeland”—as he puts it in his poem “Where the River Meets the Sea,” he has “circled” back to Moray “like the Arctic Terns of the Spey.” Through the example of his father’s relationship to the Spey, in this poem, he considers the persistent dilemma of how best to live with the natural world:... |
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