Home Farm - Softcover

Sutherland, Janet

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848616430 ISBN 13: 9781848616431

Publisher: Shearsman Books, 2019

Synopsis

In her fourth collection, Home Farm, Janet Sutherland explores the farm where she grew up; a ninety-acre dairy farm in Wiltshire, rented by her parents, where they milked 50 cows and reared heifers on the nearby water meadows. The collection examines the farm as home from early beginnings to the farm auction at the end of their working lives. It is a poetry of landscape and water, of birds, beasts and other creatures, of life lived cheek by jowl with death, of memory and forgetfulness; all of it rooted in place. There’s an engaging inventiveness of form: a disused water mill reveals poems in its old bricks, the drowner revels in his craft, the work of the farm is observed with rigour and lyricism,investigating the uses of memory and landscape as routes to understanding. The final sections zoom outwards, challenging us to look at earth itself as a home farm. 

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About the Author

Janet Sutherland was born in Wiltshire and grew up on a dairy farm. She has an MA in American Poetry from the University of Essex. Her poems are widely anthologised and have appeared in magazines such as Poetry Ireland Review, The New Humanist, The London Magazine, The New Statesman and The Spectator. In 2018 she received a Hawthornden Fellowship during which some of these poems were written. Home Farm is her fourth collection.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shearsman Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848616430
• ISBN 13: 9781848616431
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108