Edgelands Journeys into England's True Wilderness

Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts

ISBN 10: 0099539772 / ISBN 13: 9780099539773

Edité par Vintage, 2012

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N° de réf. du vendeur g001369

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Edgelands Journeys into England's True Wilderness
• Éditeur: Vintage
• Date de parution: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0099539772
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780099539773
• Reliure: Paperback
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: No Cover

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Synopsis

The wilderness is much closer than you think. Passed through, negotiated, unnamed, unacknowledged: the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither city nor countryside - have become the great wild places on our doorsteps.

In the same way the Romantic writers taught us to look at hills, lakes and rivers, poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts write about mobile masts and gravel pits, business parks and landfill sites, taking the reader on a journey to marvel at these richly mysterious, forgotten regions in our midst.

Edgelands forms a critique of what we value as 'wild', and allows our allotments, railways, motorways, wasteland and water a presence in the world, and a strange beauty all of their own.

À propos des auteurs

Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1963. He has published six collections of poetry and received a number of accolades including the Forward Prize, the Costa Poetry Award and the Whitbread Poetry Prize. As a librettist, his work has been performed in concert halls and opera houses around the world. An award-winning broadcaster and dramatist, he has published two novels, and is Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Paul Farley is the author of four collections of poetry and has won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Whitbread Poetry Award and the E.M. Forster Award. He broadcasts regularly on radio and presents The Echo Chamber on Radio 4. Edgelands, co-written with Michael Symmons Roberts, received the Royal Society of Literature’s Jerwood Award and the 2011 Foyles Best Book of Ideas Award and was serialised as Radio 4 Book of the Week.