Soil Cresswell TimPaperback
Soil Cresswell TimPaperback "A distinctive, important new voice" - Jo ShapcottTim Cresswell's poems delight in language and geography, and the collision point of the natural and the urban. Cresswell…
Specifikacia Soil Cresswell TimPaperback
Soil Cresswell TimPaperback
"A distinctive, important new voice" - Jo ShapcottTim Cresswell's poems delight in language and geography, and the collision point of the natural and the urban. Cresswell is interested in hinterlands, the in-between places: airport lounges, urban parks, the muddy verge of a river. A fox climbs to the top of a London skyscraper; sandworts take root in abandoned mine shafts; and geological time is glimpsed through the 'crushed structures' of the city.
Soil introduces Tim Cresswell as a significant new poet of place, and our changing relationship to it. The title sequence is a startling examination of man's relationship with the very stuff of earth, redeploying the language of science and archaeology with surgical precision and innovative flair. "If this poetry was a geological formation, it would be layered and folded, with scientific knowledge and a