On the Saltmarsh - Softcover

Ruth Valentine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0957172214 ISBN 13: 9780957172210

Publisher: Smokestack Books, 2012

Synopsis

On the Saltmarsh is a book about language and silence. There is the historical silence that refuses to say where the bodies lie in Chile, Kosovo and Baghdad. There is the language of old photographs, bloody handprints and broken headstones. There are the suppressed memories of the survivors, the redrawn borders of the victors and the unmarked graves of the defeated. It is a book about migration and exile, contemporary history and everyday losses, a lost map of shifting sands, rising tides and the swollen silences of the Saltmarsh.

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About the Author

Ruth Valentine s previous books of poetry include The Identification of Species (1991), The Lover in Time of War (1995), The Tide Table (1998) and The Announced (2009). She has also published two books for schools on welfare issues, and a history of Horton Hospital in Epsom. She works as a consultant to various charities, and conducts secular funerals. She lives in Tottenham, North London.

Edition details

• Publisher: Smokestack Books
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0957172214
• ISBN 13: 9780957172210
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 70