Blue: a lament for the sea
A Poetry Pamphlet, published by Stewed Rhubarb Press 2025
A medieval prophecy in Scottish Gaelic foretold an apocalyptic sea flood above which the sacred Isle of Iona shall arise. Words that wintered a thousand years unfold in ‘Blue: a lament for the sea’, haunting the Anthropocene. The long poem brings together the rising seas of climate change with the Iona myth and geological fact: in deep time, Iona arose, when Precambrian rock was forced up to the earth’s surface. The poetry draws on medieval nondual contemplative faith, creating a medieval-style dream vision.
“Blue: a lament for the sea is a powerful work of mourning and hauntings. At once elegy and call to arms, this is a spellbinding meditation on margins and oceanic longing that leaves the reader changed.” Poet and novelist, Dr Carolyn Jess-Cooke
Black Snow Falling
A gothic novel, published by Scotland Street Press 2018. Nominated for three awards: the 2019 CILIP Carnegie Medal, Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award and Historical Association Young Quills. Scottish Book Trust Book of the Month and Teen Book of the Month. Waterstone’s Top YA Title.
Hold on to your hopes and dreams…
It’s 1592. Ruth has secrets. A love that she and Silas hide from the world. A banned book of science. And a haunting dream.
When heart-breaking news shatters her plans, Ruth’s devastation splits apart time… where sinister creatures are rampaging through the years, plundering hopes and dreams.
Now they’re hunting her down.
For all readers (age 11+). Available from Foyles, Waterstones, Blackwell’s and Amazon or from your local bookshop.
Liz MacWhirter Novelist & Poet 