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
- Cover
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Stand in Late May
- Reedbed
- Nest Surveying I, 17/4/17
- Cults of Broadland
- Queen Wasp
- See how the rotary ditcher is
- Fen Meadow
- Another Murmuration
- The Pond
- Nest Surveying, II, 17/4/17
- Marbled Orb Weaver
- Rides
- Parasitoid and Host
- The wood is too far a walk now
- Apocrypha I
- First Nightingale
- Loke
- Wadeās
- The Dreams of the Salmon Farmer and his Wife
- The Biology of Spiders
- Catās Eye
- The Stag at the Gate
- Hock
- Second-hand smoke
- Sedition Song
- An Acte for the preservation of Grayne, 1566
- Chemical Chorus
- Ridge and Furrow
- Tench
- Teneral
- Earthstars
- Apocrypha II
- Displays
- Swallowtail
- The germ of the world is one place
- Spores
- Ballomania
- Neurone
- St Markās Flies
- Odonatologistsā Anecdote
- Amen
- On the restoration of the cuckoo clock at Dove Cottage
- Horse chestnut
- Apocrypha III
- On the snail in medieval manuscripts
- Courtship
- We all have needs
- Purple
- Reedbed in August
- Trespass Song
- Familiars
- Sedge Warbler
- Where four-spotted chasers make a window in the fen
- Exuviae Survey
- Nettle-tap
- Though the singing seasonās done with
