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Title: CLAYTOWN
By: James Goodman
Format: Paperback

List price: £9.99


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ISBN 10: 1844712591
ISBN 13: 9781844712595
Publisher: SALT PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 15 July, 2011
Pages: 80
Description: Poems about maps, cats and dim sum sit alongside nature and landscape in James Goodman's inventive debut collection. Claytown mixes a sense of the awesome beauty of nature with feelings of loss, using the devastated landscapes of the mid-Cornwall clay country to explore a wider human relationship with the natural world.
Synopsis: James Goodman's evocative first collection is warm and inventive, dramatic and ethically-charged, picking its way through the clay country of mid-Cornwall as it tackles the ecological pressures on the natural world. Many of the poems take their inspiration from the scale and force of landscape, finding a unifying beauty in its geology, the maps that describe it and the industries that exploit it for mineral wealth. But this collection also ranges widely in subject, and includes poems on birds, sharks, deer, fish, limoncello, dimsum and the North American Bigfoot. Goodman balances the gravity of some of his observations with comedy and lightness of touch, which all lovers of poetry will find endearing and enlightening.
Illustrations: black & white illustrations
Publication: UK
Imprint: Salt Publishing
Returns: Non-returnable
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