Marion McCready's highly-anticipated second book, Madame Ecosse, is a very Scottish collection. Political and personal by turns, it brims with evocative poems exploring history, myth, nature, and the female experience across the centuries. Rarely has writing been so lyrical, and yet so startling - expressing the passionate, sometimes brutal, extremes of love's sorrow and beautiful strangeness. Brimming over with poems that are fierce and tender, subtle and strong, sensuous and sensual, celebratory and mournful, this collection delights, moves and inspires. In work that is both experimental and true to tradition, McCready draws on nature, myth and history to explore the lives of women as leaders, lovers and mothers down through the ages to the present day. Book jacket.