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Inking Bitterns
poems and pictures for wild places.
Wildness – that part of nature humans do not control – can be elusive. You can go out looking for it, but more often than not, it will come unbidden, a sudden gift when you least expect it.
So whilst the poems in this collection celebrate Dartmoor, the Somerset Levels and the Black Mountains, they are also bound up with the wildness of small places: things glimpsed through windows, in a suburban street, from the corner of the mind’s eye.
Wildness – that part of nature humans do not control – can be elusive. You can go out looking for it, but more often than not, it will come unbidden, a sudden gift when you least expect it.
So whilst the poems in this collection celebrate Dartmoor, the Somerset Levels and the Black Mountains, they are also bound up with the wildness of small places: things glimpsed through windows, in a suburban street, from the corner of the mind’s eye.
40 pages, Paperback
First published November 30, 2013
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December 9, 2013
The book's subtitle is "Poems and Pictures for Wild Places".
I'd seen a few of these Dru Marland illustrations in other contexts, and longed inordinately to have some of them in a concrete form I could hold in my hands, not just on the computer screen. My favorites are the shivering cat opposite John Terry's poem, "I See You" and the circling ravens opposite Deborah Harvey's "Gwryne Fawr", but they're all superbly crafted and printed.
The styles of the pictures are as varied as the styles of the poems, which range from humorous to pensive to lush to sparse, and I can't begin to describe them all. The settings include the Dartmoor and Bristol regions, but also fantastic places, the sky and the bottom of the sea. The book is a real jewel.
I'd seen a few of these Dru Marland illustrations in other contexts, and longed inordinately to have some of them in a concrete form I could hold in my hands, not just on the computer screen. My favorites are the shivering cat opposite John Terry's poem, "I See You" and the circling ravens opposite Deborah Harvey's "Gwryne Fawr", but they're all superbly crafted and printed.
The styles of the pictures are as varied as the styles of the poems, which range from humorous to pensive to lush to sparse, and I can't begin to describe them all. The settings include the Dartmoor and Bristol regions, but also fantastic places, the sky and the bottom of the sea. The book is a real jewel.
December 8, 2013
Wonderfully evocative little book, words and pictures for the wild heart.
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