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Deceiving Wild Creatures
Jeremy Over
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Description for Deceiving Wild Creatures
Paperback. A collection of poems that focuses on the naturalist Gilbert White. Setting out from White's "Natural History of Selborne", it embarks on a sequence of poems that lends an helping hand towards the enlargement of the boundaries of natural history. Num Pages: 76 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135 x 6. Weight in Grams: 106.
The naturalist Gilbert White is at the heart of this collection. Like him, Jeremy Over explores an ecology with meticulous acuity. His poems are 'found in the field': the beauty and oddity of the language of others is brought into sharp focus. Robert Herrick's 'sweet disorder in the dress' is subjected to a series of disrobings; a guidebook, instruction manual and catalogue become occasions to celebrate the pleasures of language. Setting out from White's "Natural History of Selborne", Over embarks on a sequence of poems that, in White's words, lend 'an helping hand towards the enlargement of the boundaries' of ... Read more
The naturalist Gilbert White is at the heart of this collection. Like him, Jeremy Over explores an ecology with meticulous acuity. His poems are 'found in the field': the beauty and oddity of the language of others is brought into sharp focus. Robert Herrick's 'sweet disorder in the dress' is subjected to a series of disrobings; a guidebook, instruction manual and catalogue become occasions to celebrate the pleasures of language. Setting out from White's "Natural History of Selborne", Over embarks on a sequence of poems that, in White's words, lend 'an helping hand towards the enlargement of the boundaries' of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
76
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847770042
SKU
V9781847770042
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-38
About Jeremy Over
Jeremy Over was born in Leeds in 1961. He studied law at Leeds University and now lives near Cockermouth in Cumbria, where he works as a policy adviser for the Department for Work and Pensions. His poetry was included in New Poetries II (Carcanet, 1999) and his first collection was A Little Bit of Bread and No Cheese (Carcanet, 2001). ... Read more
Reviews for Deceiving Wild Creatures
"'Jeremy Over is the one to watch' - Lavinia Greenlaw, New Statesman & Society"