Uncommon Place by Gerrie Fellows
Uncommon Place is a book rooted in Scotland's mountains and open spaces, its fenced enclosures and mined ground. It develops from earlier books what Tom Leonard has called "the most intelligent debate between technology and nature in poetry that I know." Through rivers, weather and wild creatures, as well as through industrial landscapes and urban spaces, the poems explore a core preoccupation, that of how we experience being in place, the relationship of the walker with the shifting nature of the place through which she walks. "Rooted in the local, the poems in this book deliver a profound understanding of emotions engendered by the geologies and natural histories of landscape and what it means to fully inhabit this country: true dwelling; compelling, unique, enduring poetry." -Gerry Loose
Fellows, Gerrie: - Gerrie Fellows is a walker and poet whose earlier collections include The Body in Space (Shearsman, 2014) and Window for a Small Blue Child, a sequence about IVF described by Meredith Andrea as a coming to poetic terms - in the body, the mind and the ear - with ways in which technology has expanded human possibility. She grew up in New Zealand and London but has spent the last 35 years in Scotland, coming to know the varied landscapes which are the focus of Uncommon Place.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781848616356 |
| ISBN 10 | 184861635X |
| Title | Uncommon Place |
| Author | Gerrie Fellows |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Shearsman Books |
| Year published | 2019-02-07 |
| Number of pages | 72 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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