Magnetic Field
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Magnetic Field

The Marsden Poems

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eBook - ePub

Magnetic Field

The Marsden Poems

About this book

The large village of Marsden, West Yorkshire not only was home to Simon Armitage's beginnings as writer, but has continued as a vital presence throughout his works: from his very first pamphlet, Human Geography (1988), to his forthcoming new collection New Cemetery (scheduled for 2022). This edition gathers all the Marsden poems together to create a 'poetry of place' edition, which will offer a new way of appraising Simon's body of work, as well as celebrating this overlooked region that has meant so much to him personally. Simon will be announcing a decade-long tour of libraries in the UK as a central strand of his laureateship: every spring he'll be reading in a handful of libraries across the country, and would like to feature this collection as part of it, donating a copy to each library.

Even in Marsden the extraordinary could happen, apparently. Staring out of that window every night I developed a new sense of the world, one that went beyond the factual and the informational. A sense of what it was like, and how it felt. That was the beginning of my life as a writer, even though I still didn't know how to capture experiences in words.

- Simon Armitage in the Guardian, on growing up in Marsden.

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9780571361465
Edition
0
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction
  6. Miniatures
  7. Camera Obscura
  8. ‘the kitchen window’
  9. Orion
  10. The Chisel
  11. The Shout
  12. Privet
  13. Capricornus
  14. Twist
  15. Kitchen Window
  16. A New Career in a New Town
  17. The Tyre
  18. Greenhouse
  19. Without Photographs
  20. The Serpent-Holder
  21. True North
  22. Somewhere Along the Line
  23. Don’t Blink
  24. The Catch
  25. Wintering Out
  26. Two at the End of Winter
  27. Snow Joke
  28. It Ain’t What You Do It’s What It Does to You
  29. Ice
  30. Zoom!
  31. ‘Mother, any distance greater than a single span’
  32. The Ram
  33. A Few Don’ts about Decoration
  34. To Poverty
  35. Indus
  36. The Water Snake
  37. The Centaur
  38. The Phoenix
  39. The Mariner’s Compass
  40. White Christmas
  41. The Two of Us
  42. After the Hurricane
  43. Leaves on the Line
  44. Ara
  45. On Marsden Moor
  46. Evening
  47. The Spelling
  48. Fisherwood
  49. Bringing It All Back Home
  50. Harmonium
  51. Emergency
  52. October
  53. Snow
  54. ‘can a berth be reserved’
  55. ‘in the dream again’
  56. About the Author
  57. By the Same Author
  58. Copyright