Description

Bloodaxe Books, paperback

Publication Date: January 9, 2024

Publisher Marketing: Ravage: An Astonishment of Fire is the latest experimental and genre-crossing book from MacGillivray, framed as a research project into the life and work of Norwegian-Shetlandic poet Kristjn Norge, who the author tells us vanished from an island in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides in 1961. Through a combination of fragments that include poetry, logbook entries and correspondence between historical figures such as Sir David Brewster and Sir Walter Scott, MacGillivray introduces us to the troubled and mysterious character of Kristjn Norge. The book ranges from meditations on Greek optics, to accounts of isolation and demonic transformation on a remote island, to various archival materials including maps and photographs that bring the story of Norge to life. The book includes a QR code which can be used to access extra multimedia material by MacGillivray to further flesh out the world of Kristjn Norge.