Barearse Boy John McKeown paying particular attention to the

paying particular attention to the seeming trivial and incidental details that can speak so aptly

The ‘bumping’ of the title conveys something of these random processes

They include The Butterfly’s Burden

Though diverse

Shortlisted for the 2016 CLPE Children's Poetry Award

Barearse Boy John McKeown paying particular attention to theJon Taits family have lived in the hills of the Anglo Scottish borders for at least six hundred years. He is a direct descendent of a notorious seventeenth century reiver family who lived in Barearse near Yetholm in Scotland, rustling cattle, burning farms and putting their neighbours to the sword. In this modern take on Scotts Border Minstrelsy, Tait follows the reiver people as they are forced from their rural heartlands into the industrial and post