Stranger in the Mask of a Deer Maria Teresa Horta Ciaran Carson

Ciaran Carson

Midland is a novel out of time but in the middle of everything

His task: to break the enemy’s near-impenetrable codes

Leila Aboulela from Sudan

Stranger in the Mask of a Deer Maria Teresa Horta Ciaran CarsonStranger in the Mask of a Deer conjures an elemental, dreamlike narrative ranging from the present to the Late Upper Palaeolithic, when the British peninsula was gradually reoccupied by humans and animals returning from the greater continent after the Ice Age. Richard Skelton began this book length poem many years ago with the intention of exploring the history of Britains landscape, only for the text to transform into a kind of literary seance,