Field

by Harriet Tarlo

At Pangeston (at Domesday, 1086), then Pengeston, Peniston, Penistone (Pen, Celtic for hill, here the great ridge between the Don and the Little Don), the highest market town in England, seen by any train traveller heading in and out of town on the 29 arch viaduct over the River a through its creation (form) and its maintenance (labour), a field is, and has been since Neolithic succeeded Paleolithic times, a place where land and human meet, a meeting which originated with the clearing of the ground, the woodland and the animals, to create O.E. feld probably related to O.E. "earth, land," from "plain, open land" (OED).

Genres: Poetry

72 pages, Paperback

Published October 28, 2016

About the author

Harriet Tarlo is a poet and academic who lives in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, and teaches creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University. Poetry publications include Love/Land (REM Press, 2003), Poems 1990–2003 (Shearsman Books, 2004), and Nab (Etruscan Books, 2005). Her poems about the Cumbrian coast appeared with Jem Southam’s Clouds Descending photographic exhibitions at the Lowry Gallery, Salford and Tullie House, Carlisle, in 2008–2009. Tarlo also writes academic essays on modernist and contemporary poetry with particular attention to gender and landscape and environment. Essays in books appear in critical volumes published by Edinburgh University Press, Salt, Palgrave and Rodopi. Recent critical and creative work appears in Pilot, Jacket, Rampike, English and the Journal of EcocriticismM.u< (JoE). Tarlo edited a special feature on “Women and Eco-Poetics” for How2 vol. 3, no. 2, and The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry for Shearsman Press in 2011.

(from http://jacket2.org/content/harriet-tarlo)