Almanacs Paperback / softback
by Jen Hadfield
Paperback / softback
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Almanacs: a mythic scrapbook, bag of cats, a one-man band...Jen Hadfield's Almanacs is concerned with lists, rules and archetypes and what they don't account for.
It takes as its subjects the Tarot, the lore of Full Moons, weather myths and travellers' tales.
The book's central sequence, Lorelei's Lore, is a road movie in poems, set in the north of Scotland: Ultima Thule, hijacked by elusive sirens and Harrier jets.
There's the ruthless Lorelei, gorgeous Ghosty who's given up on everything except the Road, and Skerryman, patron saint of bad weather and absence-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder.
It's obsessed with yearning, like the two seas separated by the tip of Shetland 'metres apart/and desperate for each other.' Lorelei's Lore wonders 'what's beautiful?' (tarmac? sheep carcasses? sunburn?) and 'where's your native home?'
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:56 pages
- Publisher:Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Publication Date:24/02/2005
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- ISBN:9781852246877
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:56 pages
- Publisher:Bloodaxe Books Ltd
- Publication Date:24/02/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9781852246877