Red Devon - Couverture souple

Menos, Hilary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1781720541 ISBN 13 : 9781781720547

Editeur : Seren, 2013

Synopsis

Her poems bring as powerful a sense of farm, animal and land as the best work of Ted Hughes. PN Review

In the late 90 s the poet Hilary Menos moved from Camden Town in London to a farmhouse two miles from a small village in Devon. Over the next ten years, together with her husband Andy Brodie and three sons, she turned this into a 100 acre organic farm with a herd of pedigree Red Devon cows and a flock of Wiltshire Horn sheep.

In Red Devon, her second collection, Menos reveals her experiences as a blow in from upcountry moving into a tight-knit rural community and seeing at first hand some of the human and animal costs of the conflict between traditional farming methods and the demands of modern commercial agriculture. She also tells the story of a burgeoning love affair between farmer Grunt Garvey and haulier Jo Tucker, a romance which ends in tragedy. Alongside these two stories, one fictional and one very real, runs a concern for farmers around the world whose livelihoods and lives are threatened by global changes in agriculture.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Hilary Menos was born in Luton in 1964, studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Wadham College, Oxford, then worked as a food journalist and restaurant critic in London before moving to Devon to renovate a Domesday Manor. She now runs a 100 acre organic farm near Totnes with her husband and four sons. She has won or been placed in numerous competitions including the Mslexia Poetry Competition, BBC Wildlife Magazine Poet of the Year, the Buxton Poetry Competition and the Envoi Poetry Competition. She published a pamphlet, Extra Maths, in 2004. Her collection, Berg, won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2010.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seren
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781720541
• ISBN 13: 9781781720547
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible