{"product_id":"goyle-chert-mire-by-jean-sprackland-9781787335912","title":"Goyle, Chert, Mire","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vital and vivid poetry collection about place, time, illness and recovery\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'This is a profound, enduring collection' Guardian, Best New Poetry\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach of the three sections in Goyle, Chert, Mire focuses on one of the distinctive elements characteristic of the Blackdown Hills, a little-known, sparsely populated area straddling the border between Somerset and Devon, and in particular the remote springline valley where the author lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this unique landscape, relatively unchanged over the centuries, the past is so evident that it can come to seem indistinguishable from the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIllness causes a similar slippage in an individual's sense of time. The poems trace an overlapping narrative of meningitis and the cognitive symptoms, at once distorting and revelatory, that came in its aftermath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn company with Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes and Pauline Stainer, Goyle, Chert, Mire employs a tough lyricism and taut line to scrutinise the natural world through historical and personal lenses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlert to texture and temperature, humanity and history, time passing and time standing still, these poems are a deep examination of landscape, body and mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Jean Sprackland's poems are an uncommon pleasure to read' Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Accessible but worth close reading, she is among the best of her generation' Herald\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'She reinvents experience for us, while putting us in closer touch with it' George Szirtes\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jean Sprackland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57308646998389,"sku":"9781787335912","price":13.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/4075\/2426\/files\/9781787335912.jpg?v=1782120584","url":"https:\/\/sherlockandpages.com\/products\/goyle-chert-mire-by-jean-sprackland-9781787335912","provider":"Sherlock \u0026 Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}