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Homecoming
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The poems in Andrew Forster's third collection continue his explorations of what it means to make a home: from Cumbria, where he now lives, to South Yorkshire where he grew up, this book is firmly rooted in the north of England. He works as Literature Officer for the Wordsworth Trust and the ghost of Wordsworth, that supreme poet of home, haunts many of these poems. As the poet approaches middle age, this is a book of settling down, of beginning to be content with what we have managed to distil from life.
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Homecoming
Andrew Forster
Acknowledgements
Thanks are due to the editors of the following publications, where some of these poems, or earlier versions of then, first appeared: Entanglements: New Eco-Poetry (Two Ravens Press); The Sheffield Anthology: Poems from the City Imagined (smith|doorstop);The Captainâs Tower: Seventy Poets for Bob Dylanâs 70th Birthday (Seren); From Childhoodâs Hour (Ledbury Poetry Festival); Sculpted (North West Poets); Not On Our Green Belt (North West Poets); The Reader.
A number of these poems appeared as a limited edition pamphlet, âDiggingâ, illustrated by Hugh Bryden and published by Roncadora Press in 2010. Thanks are also due once again to Hugh Bryden for his wonderful cover art.
âLindale Hillâ was commissioned by Cumbria County Council Library Service for its Reading Detectives project in 2010.
The second stanza of âApril in Town Endâ, was produced as a poster and postcard by North West Librariesâ Time to Read as part of their Perfect Places project in 2012, as âApril in Dove Cottageâ.
âGrasmere Green: Summer Equinoxâ was written for âSolsticeâ, a project devised and edited by Sarah Hymas & Rebecca Bilkau.
The author is grateful to Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers for a Fellowship in 2012 which gave the valuable gift of time to write a number of these poems and to shape this collection. Thanks are due also to Michael McGregor and the Wordsworth Trust for supporting this Fellowship.
The author would like to acknowledge the financial support of a New Writing North Northern Writers Award supported by Northumbria University and Arts Council England.
Special thanks to my friends whose careful insights ...
Table of contents
- At Carstairs Junction
- Digging
- Ullswater
- Bats
- Grasmere: Summer Evening
- Lindale Hill
- Greenhead Ghyll
- Grange-over-Sands
- Morecambe Bay
- Horses at Castle Head
- Wordsworth Skating
- Snow in Lindale
- Kentmere Valley
- Standing Water
- Snakes
- Easedale Tarn
- Swans
- On The Waterwitch
- Elterwater
- Humphrey Head
- The Hospice
- Dove Cottage
- De Quinceyâs Letter to Johnny Wordsworth 1809
- April in Town End
- Sheep at Night
- Bowness: Early Morning
- Training
- Grasmere Green: Summer Equinox
- Silencing the Bells
- Dusk in Lindale
- The Duddon Valley
- Meathop Road: Autumn
- Hampsfell
- Fishing with Raymond Carver
- Roslin Glen
- Hawthornden Castle
- The Gift of Snow
- Passing
- Wearing Glasses
- Power
- The Cottage
- Message in a Bottle
- Songlines
- Leadburn
- Homecoming
- About the Author