Waiting for my clothes

Plot

Jen Hadfield's Almanacs is concerned with lists, rules and archetypes and what they don't account for. It takes as its subjects the Tarot, the lore of Full Moons, weather myths and travellers' tales. The book's central poem, Lorelei's Lore, is a road movie in poems, set in the north of Scotland It's obsessed with yearning, like the two seas separated by the tip of Shetland 'metres apart/and desperate for each other. Lorelei's Lore wonders 'what's beautiful?' (tarmac? sheep carcasses? sunburn?) and 'where's your native home?'