Jen Hadfield - Nigh-No-Place; SIGNED 1st/1st T.S. Eliot Prize Winner

Description: Jen Hadfield Nigh-No-Place The language of Jen Hadfield's poetry is one of incantation and secular praise. Her first book, Almanacs, was a traveller's litany, featuring a road movie in poems set in the north of Scotland. Nigh-No-Place is the liturgy of a poet passionately aware of the natural world. Hadfield began her new book on the hoof, travelling across Canada with a ravenous appetite for new landscapes. She took epic routes: the railway line from Halifax to Vancouver and the Dempster Highway's 740 km of gravel road, ending in the Arctic oiltowns of Inuvik and Tuktoyuktuk. But it is in Shetland that she becomes acutely aware of her own voice - her fluency and tongue-tiedness; repetition, hiatus and breath. Nigh-No-Place reflects the breadth of ground she's covered. 'Ten-minute Break Haiku' is her response to working in a fish factory. 'Paternoster' is the Lord's Prayer uttered by a draught-horse. 'Prenatal Polar Bear' takes place in Churchill, Manitoba, surrounded by tundra.Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize. Signed by Jen Hadfield to the title page Comes complete with original review slipA fine copy of a first edition, first impression paperback original published - Bloodaxe Books, 2008 All books are swathed in biodegradable bubble wrap and posted in strong, custom made book boxes to ensure undamaged delivery

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