Morocco Rococo by Jane McKie

Delicate, layered images distilled to their visceral essentials characterise Jane McKie’s award winning poetry. McKie takes her readers on journeys – to the desert in the footsteps of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, to magical places from Scotland to Sussex or to the heart of the myth. Whatever the landscape we are let into a world where the senses are alive, where the same vivid acuity pulses on the page, delivering sounds, smells, tastes and sights as we have never known them.

Jane NcKie with Edwin Morgan and Rory Bremnar during the ceremony for Scottish ~Book of the Year 2008

Jane McKie, originally from West Sussex, lives in Linlithgow, West Lothian. Her first collection, Morocco Rococo (Cinnamon Press), was awarded the Sundial / Scottish Arts Council prize for best first book of 2007. She runs a small press, Knucker Press, which is dedicated to bringing writers and artists together in book and pamphlet form. Her latest collection is When the Sun Turns Green (Polygon, 2009).