Nigh-no-place
Nigh-no-place Winner of the T.S. Her first book, Almanacs, was a travellers's litany, featuring a road movie in poems set in the north of Scotland. Eliot Prize 2008Shortlisted for the Forward Prize…
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Nigh-no-place
Winner of the T.S. Her first book, Almanacs, was a travellers's litany, featuring a road movie in poems set in the north of Scotland. Eliot Prize 2008Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best CollectionPoetry Book Society RecommendationThe language of Jen Hadfield's poetry is one of incantation and secular praise.
She took epic routes: the railway line from Halifax to Vancouver and the Dempster Highway's 740 km of gravel road, ending in the Arctic oiltowns of Inuvik and Tuktoyuktuk. Nigh-No-Place is the liturgy of a poet passionately aware of the natural world.Hadfield began her next book on the hoof, travelling across Canada with a ravenous appetite for new landscapes. But it is in Shetland that she becomes acutely aware of her own voice - her fluency and tongue-tiedness;