Edgelands : journeys into England's true wilderness

Author(s)

    • Farley, Paul
    • Roberts, Michael Symmons

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Edgelands : journeys into England's true wilderness

Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts

Vintage, 2012

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Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2011

Formerly CIP Uk

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The wilderness is much closer than you think. Passed through, negotiated, unnamed, unacknowledged: the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither city nor countryside - have become the great wild places on our doorsteps. In the same way the Romantic writers taught us to look at hills, lakes and rivers, poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts write about mobile masts and gravel pits, business parks and landfill sites, taking the reader on a journey to marvel at these richly mysterious, forgotten regions in our midst. Edgelands forms a critique of what we value as 'wild', and allows our allotments, railways, motorways, wasteland and water a presence in the world, and a strange beauty all of their own.

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Details

  • NCID
    BC0190315X
  • ISBN
    • 9780099539773
    • 0099539772
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    263 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
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