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Chapter 3: STARBRACE
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About This Book

A varied set of poems mixes ballads, lyrical meditations, cant songs, and devotional sequences to evoke both rural and urban landscapes while probing longing, loss, faith, and the uncanny. Some pieces adopt narrative ballad forms to tell haunted or elegiac stories; others offer intimate prayers, mystical reflections, or ironic streetwise verses that capture modern motion and twilight. The collection balances storytelling energy with devotional and folkloric imagery, moving between direct emotion and contemplative spiritual seeking across concise and narrative-driven lyric modes.

BY THE SAME AUTHOR


THE TRAMPING METHODIST

‘We cannot too highly recommend this book. It is a remarkable first attempt. It is quite without crudeness. The atmosphere of this novel is sweet—it smells of summer and shines of the stars.’—Daily Chronicle.

STARBRACE

‘It is difficult not to be unduly enthusiastic over Miss Kaye-Smith’s book.... This fine, tragic, poetic book is a welcome sign that the spirits of Borrow and Stevenson are still in our midst.’—Standard.

SPELL LAND

‘If I were to state exactly the position which I believe this author will take among the great masters of English fiction, you might accuse me of exaggeration.’—Punch.

Published by G. Bell & Sons Limited
York House, Portugal Street, London


ISLE OF THORNS

‘We have found ourselves over and over again simply lost in admiration.... No one should miss this book.’—Pall Mall Gazette.

Published by Constable & Co. Ltd.
10 Orange Street, London, W.C.