Almanacs - Softcover

Hadfield, Jen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852246871 ISBN 13: 9781852246877

Publisher: Bloodaxe Books, 2005

Synopsis

Scottish poetry

About this title

About the Author:

Jen Hadfield was born in Cheshire in 1978. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003 and was given a Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary in 2002 to help her complete her first collection. She graduated with distinction from her Masters in Creative Writing at the Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde. Jen has dual citizenship with Canada, where she is currently making a year last as long as she can: writing and travelling from the East to the West to the North Coasts and trying to beat her grandmother at poker.

Review:

'A quick mind abroad alone in the ever-changing natural landscape. The language country-rooted, specific, of clear observation: a sophisticated, refreshing country brew. There are many memorable images in the described coquettish dance of nature's primal forces. This is an excellent collection - Jen Hadfield is a whole and committed poet' - tom leonard 'A zestful poet of the road, a beat poet of the upper latitudes, Jen Hadfield conjures poems and prose-poems of great spirit and imaginative daring from the northern landscapes. Lively, youthful and full of the joy of language, Almanacs is the most refreshing debut for ages' - kathleen Jamie

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1852246871
• ISBN 13: 9781852246877
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 82