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ISBN-10: 1780376162
ISBN-13: 9781780376165
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Publish Date: 08/09/2022
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.10" W, 0.40" H

Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands

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This highly accomplished debut collection explores what it means to belong, what it means to be on the margins. This is poetry written in praise of family and community and those qualities which make us human: love, language and, most of all, resilience.

In Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands Sarah Wimbush journeys through myth and memory with poetry rooted in Yorkshire. From fireside tales of Romany Gypsies and Travellers, through pit villages and the haunt of The Miners’ Strike, to the subliminal of the everyday – including poems about typists, pencil sharpeners and learning to drive in a Ford Capri.

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"A thrilling debut that kept me outdoors in the grassy world of communal lives. I love the formal dazzle and linguistic dare that spoke of defiance, survival and utter joy." - Daljit Nagra, author of Look We Have Coming to Dover!
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Details

ISBN-10: 1780376162
ISBN-13: 9781780376165
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Publish Date: 08/09/2022
Dimensions: 9.00" L, 6.10" W, 0.40" H
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