Recent years have seen the arrival of new approaches to writing about landscape. Partly to do with new eco-sensibilities, this is however also due to a realisation that "landscape writing" need not be confined to literary tourism, or the verbal equivalent of chocolate-box imagery, and to the injection of radical poetic styles. The Ground Aslant is the first volume to engage with this new wave of writing, and presents the work of Tony Baker, Elisabeth Bletsoe, Thomas A. Clark, Ian Davidson, Mark Dickinson, Mark Goodwin, Nicholas Johnson, Peter Larkin, Helen Macdonald, Wendy Mulford, Frances...
Recent years have seen the arrival of new approaches to writing about landscape. Partly to do with new eco-sensibilities, this is however also due to ...
"Harriet Tarlo is at the forefront of a group of poets who take writing about topography and nature seriously; she finds new ways to express in challenging and exciting language ideas and images that could be beyond language but aren't, in her very safe and skilful hands." -Ian McMillan
"Harriet Tarlo is at the forefront of a group of poets who take writing about topography and nature seriously; she finds new ways to express in challe...
At Pangeston (at Domesday, 1086), then Pengeston, Peniston, Penistone (Pen, Celtic for hill, here the great ridge between the Don and the Little Don), the highest market town in England, seen by any train traveller heading in and out of town on the 29 arch viaduct over the River Don: a field: through its creation (form) and its maintenance (labour), a field is, and has been since Neolithic succeeded Paleolithic times, a place where land and human meet, a meeting which originated with the clearing of the ground, the woodland and the animals, to create O.E. feld probably related to O.E....
At Pangeston (at Domesday, 1086), then Pengeston, Peniston, Penistone (Pen, Celtic for hill, here the great ridge between the Don and the Little Do...
