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The Lost Music
Katrina Porteous
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Description for The Lost Music
Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 4. Weight in Grams: 114.
Katrina Porteous has been living and working alongside the fishermen of the Northumberland village of Beadnell for the past thirty years. Half the poems in The Lost Music celebrate her love of the place and its people. Her first collection also includes some of her own drawings featuring both fishing and industry in decline as well the wildlife of North-East England. All her poems are strongly physical in character, written to be read aloud. They take as their starting-point the tensions between time and eternity, change and stillness. In language which is both passionate and controlled, they express the endless ... Read more
Katrina Porteous has been living and working alongside the fishermen of the Northumberland village of Beadnell for the past thirty years. Half the poems in The Lost Music celebrate her love of the place and its people. Her first collection also includes some of her own drawings featuring both fishing and industry in decline as well the wildlife of North-East England. All her poems are strongly physical in character, written to be read aloud. They take as their starting-point the tensions between time and eternity, change and stillness. In language which is both passionate and controlled, they express the endless ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
72
Place of Publication
Tyne and Wear, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781852243807
SKU
V9781852243807
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-9
About Katrina Porteous
Katrina Porteous was born in Aberdeen, grew up in Co. Durham, and has lived on the Northumberland coast since 1987. She read History at Cambridge and afterwards studied in the USA on a Harkness Fellowship. Many of the poems in her first collection, The Lost Music (Bloodaxe Books, 1996), focus on the Northumbrian fishing community, about which Katrina has also ... Read more
Reviews for The Lost Music
Katrina Porteous returned to her native North-East, to an elected solitude on the Northumberland coast. She bears witness to the natural beauty and the industrial wreckage around her. What is rarer, she has also sought out the people there, in particular the dwindling fishing community, and out of this experience she has not only created memorable poems but performed an ... Read more