In Fields I Hear Them Sing - Hardcover

Slade, Jo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0948339276 ISBN 13: 9780948339271

Publisher: Salmon Publishing, 1989

Synopsis

An inspired first collection. This is a real poet's debut. Each poem touches the heart with haunting language and near surreal images. Jo Slade's training as a painter comes through in the kaleidoscopic mirrors she holds up to us. We enter a landscape illuminated by a poet's imagination, seen through the eye of a painter. A great combination. Whether she writes of the tragedy of a child's death - 'my dead child's face swamped in marble' - 'I have buried him where dogs can dig where insects turn in cuckoo spit' - or of proud country women, 'Riding down the wide road, their high boots like the slick hairs of a black cat' - the result is a kind of magic. Maeve Kelly

Edition details

• Publisher: Salmon Publishing
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0948339276
• ISBN 13: 9780948339271
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 68