Distance and Memory by Peter Davidson
In these painterly essays Davidson reflects on art, place, history and landscape. Distance and Memory is his testament to the cold, clear beauty of the north.
'This is a poet's book, his mind wide open to the cultures of the world, especially of the north, specifically AberdeenshireThe language is luscious, musical and precise, rich with quotation and the cultures of, especially, northern Europe, from minerology and industry to poetry, painting, music.' --Gillian Clarke, National Poet of Wales Praise for THE IDEA OF THE NORTH by Peter Davidson: 'A masterpiece... beyond being merely clever or wise: a beautiful book.' --Scottish Review of Books
Peter Davidson was born in Scotland in 1957. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, University of Oxford. Peter has edited theClarendon Poems and Translations of Sir Richard Fanshawe (Vol I, 1998; II, 1999); the Clarendon anthology of seventeenth-century English poetry, Poetry and Revolution(1998), and (with Jane Stevenson)Early Modern Women's Poetry (2001). He has also published numerous articles and studies of the post-reformation culture of British Catholicism, most recently in the monographThe Universal Baroque (Manchester University Press, 2007). The Last of the Light: about twilight was published by Reaktion in 2015. Robert Macfarlane is an acclaimed nature and travel writer. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Magdalen College, Oxford and he is now a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. His most recent book, The Old Ways, was shortlisted for the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847771551 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847771556 |
| Title | Distance and Memory |
| Author | Peter Davidson |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-06-27 |
| Number of pages | 191 |
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