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Greenfields
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- Book Synopsis
- Greenfields shows how it was, to grow up in a quiet corner of Scotland, fixing the last decades of the twentieth century in its snapshots. The book reclaims suburbia as a place of unexpected poetry and conjures the bittersweet of such hybrid places. Those modern places are superimposed upon much older contours: Price elegises the ancient landscape of Renfrewshire. Geological, dynastic, family, and lovers' time are set against the rapacious speed of modernity. Like Lucky Day, Price's acclaimed Carcanet collection, Greenfields is alert to the nuances of family relationships. New here are delicate love poems and uncanny evocations of a child's developing perception of friends, siblings and parents. In 'Tube Shelter Perspective', the sequence that binds together many of his concerns, Price demonstrates that he is a writer, in the words of John Kinsella, who 'has given late modernism an injection of humanity it has long required
- About The Author
- Richard Price is Head of Contemporary British Collections at the British Library and a tutor at the Poetry School, London. He has published over a dozen books of poetry since his debut in 1993, including Lucky Day (2005), which was a Guardian Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize. Since then, every Carcanet collection he has published has been shortlisted for a major prize. In 2012 his poem 'Hedge Sparrows' was chosen to represent Team GB in the Olympics project 'The Written World'. A year later, Small World (2012) won the Creative Scotland Award in his home country. It was followed by another Guardian Book of the Year, Moon for Sale (2017), which was also shortlisted for the Saltire Society Poetry Book of the Year. Price's most recent book is his re-telling of Inuit stories in The Owner of the Sea (2021), which was a Scotsman Book of the Year.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781857549201
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Carcanet Poetry, (26 July 2007)
- Number of Pages
- 114
- Weight
- 159 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 216 x 135 x 10 mm
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