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18%OFFJen Hadfield - Nigh-No-Place - 9781852247935 - V9781852247935
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Nigh-No-Place

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Description for Nigh-No-Place Paperback. Features the liturgy of a poet passionately aware of the natural world. This book tells about the author's travel across Canada with a ravenous appetite for new landscapes. It tells that it is in Shetland that she becomes acutely aware of her own voice - her fluency and tongue-tiedness; repetition, hiatus and breath. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 116.
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2008, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The language of Jen Hadfield's poetry is one of incantation and secular praise. Her first book, "Almanacs", was a traveller's litany, featuring a road movie in poems set in the north of Scotland. "Nigh-No-Place" is the liturgy of a poet passionately aware of the natural world. Hadfield began her new book on the hoof, travelling across Canada with a ravenous appetite for new landscapes. She took epic routes: the railway line from Halifax to Vancouver and the Dempster Highway's 740 km ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852247935
SKU
V9781852247935
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About Jen Hadfield
Jen Hadfield lives in Shetland where she works as a poet and writing tutor. Her first collection Almanacs (Bloodaxe Books, 2005) was written in Shetland and the Western Isles in 2002 thanks to a bursary from the Scottish Arts Council, and it won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003, which enabled her to work on her second collection, Nigh-No-Place (Bloodaxe ... Read more

Reviews for Nigh-No-Place
'A zestful poet of the road, a beat poet of the upper latitudes, Jen Hadfield conjures poems and prose-poems of great spirit and imaginative daring from the northern landscapes. Lively, youthful and full of the joy of language, Almanacs is the most refreshing debut for ages' - Kathleen Jamie. 'There's barely a poem that does not contain a treasurably offbeat ... Read more

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