Until the Twilight Fails is the third in the series by MacGillivray (Kirsten Norrie) excavating the imagined world of fictional Scottish poet Kristján Norge, who purportedly vanished from the Hebridean Eilean a’ Bhàis, in 1961. Part-poetics, part-instructional, Until the Twilight Fails suggests that Norge entered the subterranean world of the Sìth. With a foreword by Shetland Museum archivist Mark Ryan Smith and an introduction by MacGillivray, who edited the material, Until the Twilight Fails apparently clarifies Norge’s mysterious disappearance as one of numinous transference.
MacGillivray’s Until the Twilight Fails could be considered the terminal work in a Kristján Norge trilogy comprising Ravage: An Astonishment of Fire (Bloodaxe Books, 2023) and The Demon Tracts (Broken Sleep Books, 2024).
‘How the notebook detailing his supposed subterranean existence with the Sìth surfaced is perhaps something which will never come to light, but it adds to the small corpus of material belonging to this neglected Scottish modernist poet.’
— Mark Ryan Smith
ISBN: 9781915968166
28 pages
Paperback
