Shadow Box

Gerrie Fellows

ISBN 10: 1848618484 / ISBN 13: 9781848618480

Published by Shearsman Books, GB, 2023

About this Item

Shadow Box originated with a single piece, 'The Curiosities of Dr Hunter', a poem which gathered together many objects from Glasgow's Hunterian Museum in an investigation into the nature of eighteenth-century collecting; but the museum holds so many objects to catch the eye and imagination - cultural artefacts from across the world, scientific instruments, medical specimens, objects of the natural world - from which so many kinds of poem might be written. Here then are poems caught between the perfection of a single thing and a necessary enquiry into how the object came to be here, what its meanings might be, and who comes to be an observer here.

Seller Inventory # LU-9781848618480

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shadow Box
• Publisher: Shearsman Books, GB
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848618484
• ISBN 13: 9781848618480
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 60 grams

About this title

Synopsis

Shadow Box originated with a single piece, 'The Curiosities of Dr Hunter', a poem which gathered together many objects from Glasgow's Hunterian Museum in an investigation into the nature of eighteenth-century collecting; but the museum holds so many objects to catch the eye and imagination - cultural artefacts from across the world, scientific instruments, medical specimens, objects of the natural world - from which so many kinds of poem might be written. Here then are poems caught between the perfection of a single thing and a necessary enquiry into how the object came to be here, what its meanings might be, and who comes to be an observer here.

About the Author

Gerrie Fellows has published five full-length collections. Her most recent book from Shearsman is Uncommon Place, a collection of poems exploring our relationship to place through Scotland's urban and mountain landscapes. A New Zealander by origin, she has lived in Scotland for forty years.