Nigh-No-Place
シェトランドとカナダの旅から生まれた、場の感覚と呪術的な響きをもつ詩集。
作品情報
土地の感触と呪文めいた音が、旅の記憶を形にする。
Nigh-No-Place は、シェトランドとカナダでの経験を背景に、感覚の細部と場所の記憶を重ねる詩集。音の響きそのものが風景の一部になる。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Bloodaxe Books
- 発売日
- 2008-02-27
- ページ数
- 64ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.46 x 0.76 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781852247935
- ISBN-10
- 1852247932
- 価格
- 2603 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/British
Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2008, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, Poetry Book Society Recommendation. 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.
Jen Hadfield lives in Shetland where she works as a poet and writing tutor. Her first collection Almanacs (Bloodaxe Books, 2005) was written in Shetland and the Western Isles in 2002 thanks to a bursary from the Scottish Arts Council, and it won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003, which enabled her to work on her second collection, Nigh-No-Place (Bloodaxe Books, 2008), in Canada and Shetland. She went on to win the T.S. Eliot Prize for Nigh-No-Place, which was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation as well as being shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. She has also received a Dewar Award to produce a solo exhibition of Shetland ex-votos in the style of sacred Mexican folk art, incorporating rubrics of very short fiction, and won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Competition in 2012. Her third collection, Byssus, was published by Picador in 2014.
レビュー
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Wonderful book!
I had the pleasure of meeting Jen Hadfield at the Arvon creative writing course at Totleigh Barton, Dartmoor. I just had to buy her book and was absolutely overjoyed when it arrived. Beautiful and inspiring poetry which will be read over and over. Thank you Jen!
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Great
Originally bought this for university but in the end didn't need it due to a change in required texts. I am however glad that I bought it before I knew this as I found the works inside interesting to read.
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Prenatal Polar Bear is My Favourite Poem
Finally decided to let go of my worn photocopy from university and pay the writer for all the enjoyment I've had from it. Lovely collection of poems.
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A marvellous collection
First class poems: original, vivid, full of delicious sound effects and brilliantly unexpected imagery; fascinating dialectal vocabulary that is positively delicious to roll round your mouth; continuously original subject matter; a very attractive personal voice and a sure grip of poetic techniques.
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Inspiring and engaging
This is one of those poetry collections that I find myself coming back to again and again. Hadfield's sense of place is superb and her fresh use of language is really inspiring. A must read for any poetry fan.
関連する文学賞
- T. S. エリオット賞 第16回（2008年） ・Winner