A collection of essays and poems exploring the shared vulnerabilities of bodies and landscapes.
Through a series of meditations on the drowning coast of north Essex, Jennifer Chante seeks the wisdom of this fluid geography – one radically shaped and re-shaped by erosion and flooding, as well as human efforts to control those processes. In doing so, she learns how to let go, how to unmask, and what it means to belong to the Earth.
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Why do ye call the poet lonely,
Because he dreams in lonely places?
He is not desolate, but only
Sees, where ye cannot, hidden faces.
An Old Lesson From the Fields & Other Nature Poems brings together the finest nature poems of Canadian poet, Archibald Lampman.
Archibald Lampman (17 November 1861 – 10 February 1899) was a Canadian poet. Described as ‘the Canadian Keats’, Lampman is classed as one of the country’s Confederation Poets (a group of poets who became prominent in the late 1880’s and 1890’s). His nature poetry is written in the Romantic style and expresses a keen sensitivity and reverence for Canadian landscapes and wildlife. He died in Ottawa, aged 37.
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