Tormentil - Couverture souple

Humphreys, Ian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1913437787 ISBN 13 : 9781913437787

Editeur : Nine Arches Press, 2023

Synopsis

‘I can’t face the big stuff so I comb the moors for a tiny yellow flower’ – so begins Tormentil, the second poetry collection by Ian Humphreys. Set largely in the starkly beautiful West Yorkshire moorlands, these poems creep and bloom across geographies and time. Isolated by grief in the first months of the pandemic, Humphreys goes in search of hope and blessings among the burnt heather, tumbledown mills and canal locks near his home in the Calder Valley. He unearths a landscape of wildflowers and wildlife, a soundscape of rain and birdsong, at once healing, threatening and under threat.

These are richly textured poems of living and resisting, anchored by connections to family, food, community – and an acknowledgement of the precarious root-holds of hard-won freedoms. A soaring, defiant hymn to recovery, this vital book contemplates migration, otherness, and all the internal and external elements that bind us, make us unique.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ian Humphreys lives in West Yorkshire. His debut collection Zebra (Nine Arches Press, 2019) was nominated for the Portico Prize. He is the editor of Why I Write Poetry (Nine Arches Press, 2021), and the producer and co-editor of After Sylvia (Nine Arches Press, 2022). Ian’s work has been highly commended in the Forward Prizes for Poetry and won first prize in the Hamish Canham Prize. His poems are widely published in journals, including The Poetry Review and Poetry London, and he has written for the BBC. Ian is a fellow of The Complete Works.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Nine Arches Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1913437787
• ISBN 13: 9781913437787
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 72
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