Her Orchards

Her Orchards
Sue Leigh
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Paperback
h210 x 135mm - 56pg
21 Nov 2021 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781909747920
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What is it to inhabit the earth, to imagine what' s beyond it, to grasp the livingness of things, the brightness of the moment? Sue Leigh' s poems are made of particularities. A woman weaves a basket, a painter catches the brief flight of a bird, a sculptor works with limestone once under the sea. In our looking, in our making, we may find and lose ourselves. There are objects from the past: a Romano-British stone votive relief, a medieval roodscreen, a sampler stitched by a child in the nineteenth century. And what are they to us here, now? The poet suggests that ' time is neither here nor there. ' In poems about travel over land and sea and to the moon, she depicts our restless, necessary, spirited journeys into being and ways of being. She comes home always to the shelter and the nourishment of orchards of her own.
' Sue Leigh' s poems have the art of simplicity. She catches that strange thing - the clarity of the unsaid. Her writing has the depth of unearthing, ripening, slipping into the last of the light. ' ~ Pauline Stainer
Sue Leigh read English at London University and completed her doctorate at the University of Aberystwyth. She worked for Faber & Faber for a number of years before leaving London and settling in rural Oxfordshire. She now works as a freelance writer and poet, and as a part-time tutor at Rewley House, Oxford University' s Department for Continuing Education.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781909747920
Published: 21 Nov 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Two Rivers Press
Publisher: Two Rivers Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 56

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