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Praise for The Demon Tracts: Engrossing. It is with the careful attention of an art conservator that MacGillivray rescues this work of shattered interiority by the late, obscure Norwegian-Shetlandic modernist poet, Kristj�n Norge. Going between Norge's reproduced original and MacGillivray's transposed rendering is surprisingly emotional: the raw intensity of the first disturbance, Norge's wandering through the dark night of the soul, most of which is handwritten and in typescript, is carried over into lightness of white-spaced modern clarity, a kind of healing he seemed to have been in search of. MacGillivray, by this act of faithful transmission, conserves and frees Norge from the path of lunar delirium on which he had lost himself. Across unbridgeable space, The Demon Tracts, therefore, amounts to an adventurous collaboration between two Scotian kindreds, passing hand in hand through the whirligig of time. - Ishion Hutchinson A fitful and collaged poetics of deterioration from a seer who envisions the human core through the eye from the ear. The work astounds me. - James Byrne The force, travelling across stellar distances from sites where the choke of language is inadequate to a state of possession and delirium unmatched since Artaud, is absolute. Exploration of these pages cuts away slack flesh to reveal the bestial hunger of the alien for a time of natural magic. To risk it is to risk everything. - Iain Sinclair Through a dive into the literary wilderness of Kristj�n Norge, MacGillivray has found the poetics of an abandoned mind, giving it form and life. The Demon Tracts is an important book; it will change the face of literature and as such deserves to be read and revered by more than just the usual coterie of poetic insiders. - U. G. Vil�gos Praise for Ravage: An Astonishment of Fire: . . . clearly a major talent, fascinating work. - Simon Critchley, philosopher, author and Hans Jonas Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York, USA A toweringly original - multi-genre, documentary, polyphonic, heteroglossic - tour-de-force... in its unique and restless form and visionary imagination... No one has ever written like this. - Steve Ely, Broken Sleep Books (Books of the Year 2023), on Ravage Explosive work. - Chris McCabe, Librarian, National Poetry Library, in The Bookseller (Autumn 2023 Highlights). Very uncompromising and very unusually learned. - Professor Ewan Fernie, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham.

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Kristján Norge was born on Shetland in 1930. Something of an itinerant, he settled in Edinburgh before visiting Eilean a' Bhàis in 1961 to continue his research into cartographic mnemonics. Three manuscripts have been recently uncovered: Optik: A History of Ghost (1950), Ravage (1961) and Until the Twilight Fails, an unpublished ms (unknown date), comprising a sìthean account which Norge apparently composed after his disappearance from Eilean a' Bhàis, maintaining he had not died, but disappeared into a fairy mound. MacGillivray is the Highland name of writer and artist Kirsten Norrie. Brought up internationally and living for a significant period of time in both England and Northern Ireland, Norrie returned to Scotland after studying at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford where she received a doctorate in Performance and Scottish Identity; her thesis was entitled Cloth, Cull and Cocktail: Anatomising the Performer Body of 'Scotland'.

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