An Oakwoods Almanac
Published on 12. June 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
150 pages
978-1-84861-435-2 (ISBN)
Description
Deliberately and quietly, Gerry Loose has spent years walking the woodlands to observe the poetry of clouds and winds; to cheer the dance of gnats and moths, to listen intently to the musical compositions of wrens and ravens. An Almanac of two different woodlands, one in the Scottish west Highlands and one on Finland's Baltic coast, it celebrates those woodlands and their human lives. With shipping and fishing reports of monks and witches landed, sea eagles and night walking, the voice of the stars and weather forecasts: the beauty and profundity of oakwoods are revealed in a shifting, precise prose. Rooted in place through habitation and close observation; an exploration of Sunart and Saari through its languages: Gaelic, Finnish, English, birdsong and world news; heaping language onto landscape and excavating what's been before, An Oakwoods Almanac reinvents a classic form.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Illustrations
16 photographs
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
228 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84861-435-2 (9781848614352)
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Persons
Gerrry Loose was born in 1948. He has lived in England, Ireland, Spain, Morocco (briefly) & now Scotland. A slow-moving nomad. Work has been in poetry, agriculture & horticulture. He also designs and makes gardens. His poetry is as likely to appear in these (and ungardened landscapes) as on the page.