Under the Rock: The Poetry of a Place
Benjamin Myers**Shortlisted for the Portico Prize 2019**
The astonishing new work of non-fiction from the prize-winning author of The Gallows Pole and The Offing
Under the Rock is about badgers, balsam, history, nettles, mythology, moorlands, mosses, poetry, bats, wild swimming, slugs, recession, floods, logging, peacocks, community, apples, asbestos, quarries, geology, industrial music, owls, stone walls, farming, anxiety, relocation, the North, woodpiles, folklore, landslides, ruins, terriers, woodlands, ravens, dales, valleys, walking, animal skulls, trespassing, crows, factories, maps, rain - lots of rain - and a great big rock.
______________'Extraordinary, elemental ... never less than compelling: this is a wild, dark grimoire of a book' - TLS
'Exceptionally engaging ... beguiling ... this is a startling, unclassifiable book' - Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman
'Compelling...
ISBN : 9781783963638
Yıl:
2018
Yayımcı:
Elliott and Thompson Limited
Dil:
english
ISBN 10:
1783963638
ISBN 13:
9781783963638
Dosya:
EPUB, 4.85 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2018