Heath - Couverture souple

Shuttle, Penelope

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1911027069 ISBN 13 : 9781911027065

Editeur : Nine Arches Press, 2016

Synopsis

A poetic elegy for Hounslow Heath, which is ever more disappearing underneath Heathrow Airport.

alas, alas for everything
we lost on the Heath

Criss-crossed with desire-lines and flight paths, Penelope Shuttle and John Greening s Heath is a wild chorus of poems written in call and response across Hounslow Heath. Through bramble, furze and over wild tracks, we explore the run-out grooves of a rapidly vanishing edgeland that may soon go under the tarmac of the proposed third runway at Heathrow. This is eco-poetry beautifully realised and retold in the form of a contemporary fable, straying from the known routes into the borderlands between the human, natural and the supernatural.

Alone on the heath, under the constellations of aircraft holding patterns, and with only these eloquent, shape-shifting poems as our guide, we encounter highwaymen, witches and ghosts, follow the tracks of the last wolf in England, and find ourselves incanting the heath s calendar of spells and enchantments. Heath speaks to us, sings its own centuries-old song of seasons; both born and raised in its shadow, Shuttle and Greening s deep connection of memory to this place brings forth a remarkable cycle of magical and bitter-sweet poems.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

JOHN GREENING was brought up near Heathrow, and studied at Swansea,Mannheim and Exeter. Among other awards, he has received a Hawthornden Fellowship, the Bridport Prize and a Cholmondeley. His collections include Hunts: Poems 1979-2009, and To the War Poets, described in Stand as beautifully put together, masterly in placing the addresses to writers past in a vibrant present... with a convincing imaginative scope and freshness . Other books include studies of the War Poets, Yeats, Hardy, Edward Thomas, Ted Hughes and the Elizabethans together with Poetry Masterclass. His landmark anthology, Accompanied Voices: Poets on Composers from Thomas Tallis to Arvo Pärt received five stars in BBC Music Magazine.

PENELOPE SHUTTLE was born in Staines in 1947 and has lived in Falmouth, Cornwall since 1970. Since hr first collection of poems, The Orchard Upstairs, she has published ten further collections. She is a tutor and mentor for The Arvon Foundation and the Poetry School, and has given readings and led workshops at many leading festivals and venues. A selection of her work can be heard online at www.poetryarchive.org.uk

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nine Arches Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1911027069
• ISBN 13: 9781911027065
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible