Plundering the language, Paul Hyland carefully and forcefully renders experience and imagination using 'the best trees/ for those tasks I could take on'. Rooted in English land and life, his Stubborn Forest yields a rich hoard of new poems in the gritty Anglo-Saxon tradition. This is a strongly imaginative book. It shows a range not only of technique but also of tone, in portraits of places and people, dream poems, riddles, elegies, and enigmatic poems which – like those of Hyland's previous book, Poems of Z – speak through personae or fictional characters. Many of the poems explore particular landscapes: Dorset, South-West England, and Northumbria.
- ISBN13 9780906427590
- Publish Date 24 May 1984
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 May 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96
- Language English