Flight Patterns

By Lorna J. Waite

In Flight Patterns, Lorna J. Waite creates a fiercely intimate feminist epic rooted in Scotland, working-class identity, and the body. These are poems of belonging and resistance, where the personal becomes political and the intimate meets the national. Waite’s voice is both weapon and balm, claiming space within the Scotland’s literary traditions yet embodied in the physicality of Scottish working-class womanhood. Bold, visceral, and uncompromising, Flight Patterns traces the contours of identity, place, and freedom. Each poem is an act of reclamation; each page, a gesture towards flight. With an Introduction by Janette Ayachi and Afterword by Robert Alan Jamieson.