Reward for Winter - Couverture souple

Slaney, Di

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908853638 ISBN 13 : 9781908853639

Editeur : Valley Press, 2016

Synopsis

In 2005, Di Slaney abandoned her urban existence to become the custodian of an ancient farmhouse in Nottinghamshire, populating it with at the last count 150 animals, most of them rescued. Reward for Winter tells that story on three levels: the earthy triumphs and tribulations of a novice smallholder; the history of Bilsthorpe from Viking settlement through Civil War to coal mining in the 1920s; and the quirky and affecting biography of one of the farm's chickens.

The land, the generations who have tended it and Di's animals are given voice, from the humorous How to knit a sheep to the intimate, illuminating cycle focusing on a single chicken learn, among other fascinating details, what dictates the colour of your breakfast egg. Reward for Winter also explores Bilsthorpe's hidden histories: lost landmarks Ingar's Holt and Labour-in-Vain; an Elizabethan witch trial; a concealed Cavalier king and seventeenth-century adultery. This book stands as both a fascinating work of non-fiction and an elegant and accomplished volume of poems, offering the reader an escape hatch to the country and a lungful of bracing air.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Di Slaney is a poet and smallholder who lives in Nottinghamshire. She has co-owned Candlestick Press since 2010. Her poems have been published in various magazines including Magma, The Rialto, The Interpreter's House and Brittle Star. Her debut pamphlet Dad's Slideshow was published by Stonewood Press in 2015.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Valley Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1908853638
• ISBN 13: 9781908853639
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 100
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible