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MINERS AT THE QUARRY POOL
Nigel Jarrett
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Description for MINERS AT THE QUARRY POOL
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Miners at the Quarry Pool is a collection of above and below - and nearly every space in between. From the dizzying heights of photographs taken from an aeroplane to the miners just delivered from their daily work, the collection is an unapologetic, yet satisfying examination of the spaces we inhabit and our existence within those spaces. Survival, depression, family, friendship, nostalgia, war, love, and death - each are incisively carved a niche in Miners at the Quarry Pool. Nothing is neglected in this collection; toil and trains take a place among trees and devices of ... Read more
Miners at the Quarry Pool is a collection of above and below - and nearly every space in between. From the dizzying heights of photographs taken from an aeroplane to the miners just delivered from their daily work, the collection is an unapologetic, yet satisfying examination of the spaces we inhabit and our existence within those spaces. Survival, depression, family, friendship, nostalgia, war, love, and death - each are incisively carved a niche in Miners at the Quarry Pool. Nothing is neglected in this collection; toil and trains take a place among trees and devices of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
PARTHIAN BOOKS
Condition
New
Number of Pages
90
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909844063
SKU
V9781909844063
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Ref
99-2
About Nigel Jarrett
Nigel Jarrett is a freelance writer, a former daily-newspaper reporter and a winner of the Rhys Davies Prize for short fiction. For many years he has been music critic of the South Wales Argus. Born in Cwmbran, he was educated at West Mon School, Pontypool, and at Cardiff University. His collection of short stories, Funderland, was published by Parthian in ... Read more
Reviews for MINERS AT THE QUARRY POOL
This compelling collection of poems, based loosely on his grandfathers' hard-lived lives as Welsh miners, proves Nigel Jarrett to be master of his own voice. These honed, varied poems, with their strikingly original and accurate images and bigness of vision, capture eras still in living memory, including the two world wars, not only in Wales's history, but also in England's. ... Read more