Englaland by Steve Ely

Englaland by Steve Ely

After the battle of Brunanburh, when thelstan's army defeated an invading alliance of Scots, Irish, Britons and Norse, the Viking mercenary Egil Skallagrimsson extemporised a panegyric for the English and their king.

Englaland is a stunning re-imagining of Skallagrimsson's song, an unapologetic and paradoxical affirmation of a bloody, bloody-minded and bloody brilliant people. Danish huscarls, Falklands war heroes, pit-village bird-nesters, aging prize-fighters, flying pickets, jihadi suicide-bombers and singing yellowhammers parade through the book in an incendiary combination, rising to the challenge of the skald's affirmation: you are the people in the land; know you are the people; know it is your land.

Steve Ely lives in the Osgoldcross wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His first collection, Oswald's Book of Hours, was nominated for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013 and the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry in 2014.

Ely, Steve: - Steve Ely has written several books of poetry, most recently Zi-Zi Taah Taah Taah: The Song of the Willow Tit, Bloody, Proud and Murderous Men, Adulterers and Enemies of God and Incendium Amoris. He has also published a novel, Ratmen (Blackheath Books, 2012), and a biographical work, Ted Hughes's South Yorkshire: Made in Mexborough (Palgrave MacMillan, 2015). Steve Ely is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Huddersfield, and is Director of the Ted Hughes Network.

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ISBN 13	9780992958145
ISBN 10	0992958148
Title	Englaland
Author	Steve Ely
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Smokestack Books
Year published	2015-04-01
Number of pages	172
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