Uncommon Place - Softcover

Fellows, Gerrie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184861635X ISBN 13: 9781848616356

Publisher: Shearsman Books, 2019

Synopsis

Uncommon Placeis a book rooted in Scotland's mountains and open spaces, its fenced enclosures and mined ground. It develops from earlier books what Tom Leonard has called "the most intelligent debate between technology and nature in poetry that I know." 
      Through rivers, weather and wild creatures, as well as through industrial landscapes and urban spaces, the poems explore a core preoccupation, that of how we experience being in place, the relationship of the walker with the shifting nature of the place through which she walks. 

"Rooted in the local, the poems in this book deliver a profound understanding of emotions engendered by the geologies and natural histories of landscape and what it means to fully inhabit this country: true dwelling; compelling, unique, enduring poetry." —Gerry Loose

 

About this title

About the Author

Gerrie Fellows is a walker and poet whose earlier collections include The Body in Space (Shearsman, 2014) and Window for a Small Blue Child, a sequence about IVF described by Meredith Andrea as a "coming to poetic terms - in the body, the mind and the ear - with ways in which technology has expanded human possibility." She grew up in New Zealand and London but has spent the last 35 years in Scotland, coming to know the varied landscapes which are the focus of Uncommon Place.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184861635X
• ISBN 13: 9781848616356
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72