Byssus
by
Jen Hadfield
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
144724110X
ISBN-13
9781447241102
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Imprint
Picador
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 13th, 2014
Print length
80 Pages
Weight
114 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 19.70 x 0.70 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry by individual poets
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A brilliant new poetry collection from the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize
Byssus is Jen Hadfield''s third collection, and her first after the T.S. Eliot prize-winning Nigh-No-Place. Byssus - pronounced ''bissus'', and meaning the mussel''s ''beard'', the tough fibres which anchor it to the seabed - is a book first and foremost about home, and what it takes to find and forge one: amongst friends, alert to mortality, to love and to landscape. Her language, strongly rooted in the common names she finds in the sea, shore and moor of her adopted Shetland, has already been widely admired for its startling originality. Here, through poems of astonishment and adoration, through charms and fables, and ultimately through a practice of attention and careful honouring - she shows how speech itself can be an act of home-making. Byssus is a profound consideration of just what it means to get to know a place.
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