Results for: books tagged ‘Rural’
Strength of the Hills: George Ewart Evans
The Crooked Scythe: George Ewart Evans
George Ewart Evans, who wrote the classic Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay, was one of the pioneers of oral history. This anthology is drawn from his writings about ... More
Elmet: Ted Hughes
Most of the poems in this book were written by Ted Hughes in response to Fay Godwin's photographs of the part of Yorkshire in which he grew up. Their collaboration ... More
Floods: Maurice Riordan
The poems in Maurice Riordan's second collection are unusual in their recourse to the humanist belief in poetry as one of the forms of knowledge, imparting information about the observable ... More
Electric Light: Seamus Heaney
Electric Light travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world, revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within ... More
Opened Ground: Seamus Heaney
This volume is a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work, taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a translator, and offering a more generous choice ... More
Annie Dunne: Sebastian Barry
Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a small farm in a remote and beautiful part of Wicklow in late 1950s Ireland. All about them the old ... More
Public Property: Andrew Motion
Andrew Motion's first collection since his appointment as Poet Laureate moves between private and public realms, pondering each from the other's borders. In a series of elegiac idylls he conjures ... More
The Invention of Dr Cake: Andrew Motion
To all appearances, Dr Cake is an unexceptional man.After a period of study and practice in London, and several years travelling in Europe, he has chosen the life of a ... More
Moortown Diary: Ted Hughes
Originally published in 1979, Moortown Diary is the updated version of Ted Hughes's acclaimed Devon farming sequence, written over a period of several years during which he was spending almost ... More
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