Jen Hadfield
Byssus
- ISBN 13:
- 9781447241102
- author:
- Jen Hadfield
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Picador
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2014
- Pages:
- 80
- Dimensions:
- 0.6 x 15.2 x 19.7 cm
- Genre:
- Poetry, Drama & Criticism, Poetry,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Byssus by Jen Hadfield is a rich and varied poetry collection that explores the idea of home and how it can be found and forged. Named after the strong fibres used by mussels to anchor themselves, the book is a celebration of the natural world and our place within it. Through praise poems, love poems, charms and fables, Hadfield shows how speech itself allows us to inhabit and merge with a landscape through attention and careful honouring. Her language, rooted in common names found in the sea, shore and moor of her adopted Shetland, is both original and evocative. This collection builds to a profound consideration of who and what we are within the landscape, making it a thought-provoking read for anyone interested in poetry and the natural world.