Hemisphere

by Pete Green

Longbarrow Press is delighted to announce the publication of Hemisphere by Pete Green: a long poem in a short book.

Hemisphere tells the story of a circular voyage which proceeds from the Hebrides around the north Atlantic, Alaska and Siberia, then finally back to Europe. Along the way, the protagonist visits a doomsday seed vault, a giant qwerty keyboard, a boundary between Tuesday and Wednesday, the world’s largest island on a lake on an island on a lake on an island, two pubs and an Arctic coffee bar. These are all real locations on an impossible journey. Hemisphere is also a meta-travel narrative which poses questions about who has permission to practise ‘place writing’, and explores the power of imagination to push back against our ongoing personal lockdowns.

A beautifully produced 48-page ‘short book’, with illustrations by Abi Goodman, Hemisphere is available now from Longbarrow Press.

48 pages, Paperback

Published October 1, 2021

About the author

Pete Green is a poet and musician who grew up in Grimsby and has lived in Sheffield since 2004. Their preoccupations include place, identity, marginality and finitude, walking, drinking, rock and roll, and railways. Pete's first full-length collection The Meanwhile Sites is published by Salt in October 2022, while their short book Hemisphere and pamphlet Sheffield Almanac are published by Longbarrow Press. Their poetry, which has also appeared in Under the Radar, Stand, the Fenland Poetry Journal and elsewhere, has been longlisted in the 2020 National Poetry Competition and shortlisted for the 2019 Brotherton Poetry prize.