| Growth Rings Contributor(s): Evans, Christine (Author) |
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ISBN: 1854114026 ISBN-13: 9781854114020 Publisher: Seren Books OUR PRICE: $11.66 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2006 Annotation: Christine Evans' characteristic themes and concerns--family, childhood memories, and the history and landscape of her area of north Wales, particularly Bardsey Island--reappear in this collection that features moving poems about the private aftermath of public cataclysms such as war, earthquakes, and nuclear testing. The domestic is often cleverly subverted and interwoven with both the spiritual and political, and short pieces offer brief, almost hallucinatory glimpses of their subjects. In addition, longer, discursive poems, such as the elegiac "Swimmers--"dedicated to two local fishermen, both lost within a month of each other--reveal a versatile use of form. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Dewey: 821.914 |
| Physical Information: 0.24" H x 4.54" W x 9.28" (0.23 lbs) 72 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This new collection from Christine Evans follows her 'Selected Poems'. Hers is a sensitive and persuasive voice, highly attuned to the vagries of the seasons, to the landscapes and inhabitants of the beautiful Llyn Peninsula in North Wales where she had made her home. |