Fence is an epic of fragments that is at once beautiful and beautifully strange. In his exploration of the vast, frozen Svalbard islands, poet and geographer Tim Cresswell has created a kind of travel poetry whose taut, minimalist lyric synthesises subjects as diverse as history, politics and Arctic ecology. Echoing the mournful atmospherics of the great Anglo-Saxon elegies, this book-length poem is a powerful meditation on places that are slipping away, where 'compass gone haywire / so north'.
- ISBN13 9781908058317
- Publish Date 23 October 2015
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penned in the Margins
- Format Paperback
- Pages 64
- Language English