Broadlands
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Broadlands

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Broadlands

About this book

A generous and intimate reflection on the natural and human world, grounded in the reedbeds, meadows and marshes of England's Norfolk Broads.

The poems of Matt Howard's Broadlands are closely and thrillingly observed from real encounters, inviting us closer to the more-than-human world, its violence, fragility and wonder. Yet the human is always and all the more present; here too are poems of desire, love and grief. They are poems of the field, imaginings from the conservation of habitats restored and created, working with and for all their constituent species - for we now live in times where everywhere is in some part within the gift of the habitat of the human heart and mind. Redefining what a sense of place might mean, the lyric energy of Broadlands rises from a labour committed, 'set on this floating ground'.

Broadlands is Matt Howard's second collection, following his debut Gall (2018) from The Rialto, which won the inaugural Laurel Prize for Best First Collection andthe 2018 East Anglian Book Award for Poetry and was also shortlisted for the 2019 Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Prize.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. About the Author
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Contents
  7. Stand in Late May
  8. Reedbed
  9. Nest Surveying I, 17/4/17
  10. Cults of Broadland
  11. Queen Wasp
  12. See how the rotary ditcher is
  13. Fen Meadow
  14. Another Murmuration
  15. The Pond
  16. Nest Surveying, II, 17/4/17
  17. Marbled Orb Weaver
  18. Rides
  19. Parasitoid and Host
  20. The wood is too far a walk now
  21. Apocrypha I
  22. First Nightingale
  23. Loke
  24. Wade’s
  25. The Dreams of the Salmon Farmer and his Wife
  26. The Biology of Spiders
  27. Cat’s Eye
  28. The Stag at the Gate
  29. Hock
  30. Second-hand smoke
  31. Sedition Song
  32. An Acte for the preservation of Grayne, 1566
  33. Chemical Chorus
  34. Ridge and Furrow
  35. Tench
  36. Teneral
  37. Earthstars
  38. Apocrypha II
  39. Displays
  40. Swallowtail
  41. The germ of the world is one place
  42. Spores
  43. Ballomania
  44. Neurone
  45. St Mark’s Flies
  46. Odonatologists’ Anecdote
  47. Amen
  48. On the restoration of the cuckoo clock at Dove Cottage
  49. Horse chestnut
  50. Apocrypha III
  51. On the snail in medieval manuscripts
  52. Courtship
  53. We all have needs
  54. Purple
  55. Reedbed in August
  56. Trespass Song
  57. Familiars
  58. Sedge Warbler
  59. Where four-spotted chasers make a window in the fen
  60. Exuviae Survey
  61. Nettle-tap
  62. Though the singing season’s done with