Eye o da hurricane
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Eye o da hurricane for string quartet (2017)– Angela Elizabeth Slater Eye o da hurricane was written for a colloborative workshop with writers and the Gildas quartet at the St Magnus composition course (2017). The piece takes inspiration and imagery from Christian Tait’s poem ‘Fae da Journal o a Crofter’s Wife’. The piece particularly draws on imagery from certain lines within the poem including:
Sae here I am ida eye o da hurricane
while a aathing crashes an roars an birls
aboot me. Destructive an oot o control.
…
ta read atween da lines, or hoo
my hert vibrates laek fiddle-strings
in tune wi der black despair
…
sood cry my name A’ll hear him
sammas he wis in da nixt room
…
But ivvery mennit o ivvery day
I bargain wi da Mellishon, offerin him
my sowl if he’ll bring dem safely hame
…
Dis is what its laek, aa bi me lane
trapped ida eye o da hurricane
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