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Hidden River
Stephanie Norgate
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Description for Hidden River
Paperback. "Hidden River". Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 233 x 7. Weight in Grams: 198.
Stephanie Norgate’s compelling poems celebrate our sensuous contact with each other and with nature. With subjects ranging from a child’s first enjoyment of speech to a lover’s lost dialect, they make invisible experiences tangible through vivid and intense imagery. Lovers in a mud bath are transformed into a new vision of creation. The private rituals of birth, love and loss imprint themselves on the landscape, with ‘a strong magical sense of rawness and eroticism’ (Gerry Stewart), in poems ‘all about skin – that thin, protective coating, the point of contact between inner and outer worlds’ (Jenny Swann). Hidden River ... Read more
Stephanie Norgate’s compelling poems celebrate our sensuous contact with each other and with nature. With subjects ranging from a child’s first enjoyment of speech to a lover’s lost dialect, they make invisible experiences tangible through vivid and intense imagery. Lovers in a mud bath are transformed into a new vision of creation. The private rituals of birth, love and loss imprint themselves on the landscape, with ‘a strong magical sense of rawness and eroticism’ (Gerry Stewart), in poems ‘all about skin – that thin, protective coating, the point of contact between inner and outer worlds’ (Jenny Swann). Hidden River ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852247966
SKU
V9781852247966
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99-9
About Stephanie Norgate
Stephanie Norgate is a poet and playwright. Her plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. For many years, she ran the MA in Creative Writing at Chichester University and is now a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Southampton. She edited an international collection of essays, Poetry and Voice (CSP, 2012) and Winchester Poetry Festival’s Chalk Poets ... Read more
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