Drawing on Scottish and Irish Gaelic poetry and other literary and folk traditions, Eating Thistles transplants, transforms and re-imagines contemporary and historical events through Aesopian language, slipping between history, myth and memory - Syria, St Kilda, the Sudan, Latin American dictadura and the mass-executions by the SS. Eating Thistles is a powerful and original study of guilt, denial, innocence, and complicity. Deborah Moffatt was born in Vermont. Her poems have been included in several anthologies, including Poems of the Decade (Forward Prize/Faber). She lives in Scotland.