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Byssus—pronounced "bissus," and meaning the mussel's "beard," the tough fibers 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 honoring—she shows how speech itself can be an act of home-making. This is a profound consideration of just what it means to get to know a place.
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Jen Hadfield is the author of Almanacs, which won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003, and Nigh-No-Place, which won the T. S. Eliot Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. She also won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Competition in 2012.
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Throughout Byssus. . . there is something magical and incantatory in the way she cherished language at the level of the name, as if utterance itself might be a way of dwelling in the real and making oneself at home there. * New Statesman *
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 144724110X
- ISBN 13 9781447241102
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- Number of pages80
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Byssus is Jen Hadfield's third collection, and her first after the T.S. Eliot prize-winning Nigh-No-Place. Byssus - the name for the strong silk that a mussel uses to root itself to a rock - is an unsurprisingly rich and various collection, but a book first and foremost about home, and what it takes to find and forge one. Through praise poems, love poems, charms and fables, Hadfield shows how speech itself affords us a means to inhabit and merge with a landscape, through a practice of attention and careful honouring. Her language, strongly anchored in the common names she finds in the sea, shore and moor of her adopted Shetland, has already been admired for its startling originality. But Byssus is not a book content to reflect and meditate: Hadfield has made strange new objects to place among the natural, and the book builds to a profound consideration on who and what we are, exactly, within the natural landscape. A brilliant new poetry collection from the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781447241102
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