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- English
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Missel-Child
About this book
According to the 17th-century herbarium The Garden of Eden, a "missel-child" is a mysterious being found beneath a mistletoe-covered tree—a changeling, perhaps. In this first collection from a respected editor, the missel-child is a point of access to various archaeologies of identity, place, and language. The poems deploy syllabics and collage techniques as they explore elegy and myth. Each poem is a space in which language works not only to convey something verbally, but to enable it to be shown as well.
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IV
Fosse Way
To-day was once Britain.
Acres begin with running north-west.
There were forks and running due north.
Rich wool. Properly a large town.
Unusually quiet.
The sower guides the wheels.
Square words from the charms.
Start out on the line with turns due north.
It bears once more the fosse before
the town through it. Hardly praised.
The land the views a very stone.
Golden sun.
Trees are not luxuriant exactly.
For the country climbing gradually to higher ground.
Sometimes a small down.
The villa at the rich weeks in the way nowadays.
Exactly they were practically Britons.
There are not hundreds south-east of the line.
These rivers beyond were mines practically.
Beyond completely followed.
The richer Britons themselves better had been born.
Comes into conquest were many.
The life. Perhaps they were as many
as twenty in some extremely.
Built of timber only once.
Traces of a staircase glass tessellated.
Painted by means of the heat led
underneath the walls.
The poorest were a good deal more than our own.
Usually cold.
Hollow Meadows
Hollow, hull (of ships and plants), κοȋλος, skull (as κεφαλὴ and caput that which holds, contains), hole, hold, etc. Hell.
– Gerard Manley Hopkins, diary, 1863
Corridor-coloured. A place
of eyes. Things
put away, privily
*
englishedith
08-05-2005, 16:07
:help: Can anyone tell me is this place still there and what was it home/hospital/institution?
PhilipB
08-05-2005, 19:33
As far as I’m aware this used to be a Borstel. The building is still there but not used as such now.
deecee
08-05-2005, 22:51
A friend of ours had a son who used to stay there because of very bad epilepsy, this was back in the 70s. It was a kind of institution for people with mental and physical disabilities.
*
Chlorine is heavy, creeps
like nightwatchmen. Clocks
mock: tonic /
clonic /
*
HughW
09-05-2005, 21:38
Three possible manifestations of the same institution?!
from Pawson & Brailsford’s Illustrated Guide to Sheffield 1862:
In 1849 the Guardians leased from the Duke of Norfolk about 50 acres of moorland, at Hollow Meadows, about six miles from the town, with a view of reclaiming it by pauper labour. Nearly the whole of the land has been brought under cultivation, and sub-let to farm tenants. The Farm, as it is called, is still retained by the Guardians, and a number of the able-bodied men who require relief in times of bad trade are sent to labour at it. The undertaking has been so successful that at the time we write (February 1862) the Guardians are in negotiation for the leasing of further land.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Epigraph
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- Notes
- About the Author
- Copyright