Nettles

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Nettles is my debut poetry collection, exploring what it means to honour our roots while making a life on our own terms. From long-distance love to working bodies and wild places, these poems return to the natural world in search of meaning, belonging and renewal. Tender, sharp and rooted in contradiction, Nettles is for anyone who’s ever questioned where they come from or where they’re going.

“These are poems that imagine much we are not ‘meant’ to see or feel – the eye of a humpback whale, a face persisting lifelessly in a death mask, the stinging welts from nettles – alongside the domestic, the familial made strange, through silences, repetitions. They are powerful poems, and unnerving ones.” – Peter Mackay, Scotland’s Makar

“A true makar in the making.” – The National

“A vital new voice in Scottish Poetry”. – Julie McNeill

“Nazaret Ranea has the courage to pull off poems of any length. Her view is refreshingly, sometimes startlingly, oblique, the tone tender, but unsentimental. In a poetry world full of brash noise this quietly confident but penetrating voice deserves to be heard”. – Hugh McMillan