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Winter Migrants: A Bird´s Journey Over the Fells and a Coastal Meditation on Winter
Tom Pickard
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Description for Winter Migrants: A Bird´s Journey Over the Fells and a Coastal Meditation on Winter
Paperback. Tom Pickard's poems, always politically engaged, explore the burning issue of our decade, the migrant crisis, setting it in historical and contemporary contexts and (given his own hand-to-mouth existence) understanding deeply the migrant and refugee condition. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Winter Migrants opens with Tom Pickard's prize-winning sequence Lark & Merlin, an erotic pursuit over the hills and fells of the poet's Northern-English homeland. Stotting clough and gill in sneaping winds, leaping burns by backlit larches, waves of sleek grass skiffing mist ...here, says the poet, 'the weather is overseer'. The borders between body and landscape, desire and object, blur in the mammal heat of pursuit, of a lover, of a self, insatiable and unresolvable. There follows a selection from the Fiends Fell Journals, a haibun or poetry-diary, composed over the decade Pickard lived alone on the wind-blown North Pennines. ... Read more
Winter Migrants opens with Tom Pickard's prize-winning sequence Lark & Merlin, an erotic pursuit over the hills and fells of the poet's Northern-English homeland. Stotting clough and gill in sneaping winds, leaping burns by backlit larches, waves of sleek grass skiffing mist ...here, says the poet, 'the weather is overseer'. The borders between body and landscape, desire and object, blur in the mammal heat of pursuit, of a lover, of a self, insatiable and unresolvable. There follows a selection from the Fiends Fell Journals, a haibun or poetry-diary, composed over the decade Pickard lived alone on the wind-blown North Pennines. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
121g
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784102647
SKU
V9781784102647
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About Tom Pickard
Tom Pickard was born in 1946 in Newcastle. He became friends with the poet Basil Bunting and encouraged his return to writing. In 1963, Pickard founded the Morden Tower readings with international poets such as Allen Ginsberg. Pickard moved to London in 1973 and started writing radio and documentary scripts. His publications include High on the Walls (1968) and Ballad ... Read more
Reviews for Winter Migrants: A Bird´s Journey Over the Fells and a Coastal Meditation on Winter
'I am an old admirer of Tom Pickard's poetry and believe as does Basil Bunting that he is one of the most live and true poetic voices in Great Britain.' Allen Ginsberg;