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Spiritlands Sarah Wardle

Spiritlands By Sarah Wardle

Spiritlands by Sarah Wardle


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Summary

Fifth collection by London poet presents a personal geography in poems about hope and courage, life and nature, with a focus on recovery from mental health problems and questioning the workings of the NHS.

Spiritlands Summary

Spiritlands by Sarah Wardle

Spiritlands invites you into a territory that is at once individual and plural. On the one hand, this is poetry about a personal geography, an eclectic landscape, space in which to be oneself and welcome who one chooses to express hospitality towards; on the other, these are poems all about hope, life and nature, about belonging to the whole world and asserting one's right to a place and voice in it. The drive of this collection is spirit in the sense of the courage it takes to true to one's instincts. There is a timelessness to the poems in this book and a sense of what endures. Here is oneness with existence, an appreciation of the universe, a happiness that springs from standing on the globe and the feeling of being a living, breathing soul in it.

Spiritlands Reviews

Sarah Wardle writes with great humanity and makes A Knowable World of the indignity, frustrations and fear of acute episodes of mental illness. That's how she manages to get her readers to empathise with all those in the community, both in and out of hospital, who live with the stigma of madness' - Rabbi Baroness Julia Neuberger.

About Sarah Wardle

Sarah Wardle was born in London in 1969. She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College; Oxford, where she read Classics; and Sussex, where she read English. She won Poetry Review's new poet of the year award in 1999 and her first collection, Fields Away (Bloodaxe Books, 2003), was shortlisted for the Forward best first collection prize. Her second book, SCORE! (Bloodaxe Books, 2005), included some of the poems she broadcast while poet-in-residence for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, as well as the script of a film-poem, 'X: A Poetry Political Broadcast'. A Knowable World (Bloodaxe Books, 2009) followed her detainment in a Central London psychiatric hospital. Her most recent Bloodaxe collections are Beyond (2014) and Spiritlands (2019). She has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, and works as lecturer in poetry at Middlesex University and as a creative writing tutor for Morley College, Westminster Kingsway College and the Workers' Educational Association.

Table of Contents

9 Song for World 10 The Golden Bough 11 Votive 12 Spiritlands 15 Amina's Truth 16 Night Nurses 17 First-hand Evidence 18 In the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe 19 The Spirit to Solve 20 Human Spirit 22 Pamphleteering 23 At Dove Cottage 24 Schoolgirl to Teacher 25 Mr Wales 26 Careless Whisper 27 Art Therapy 28 On Empty Street 29 City Rain 30 Mill-hands Conversing, 1919 31 Still Life 32 Umbrella 33 US 34 Modern Classics 35 Artistic Preference 36 Letter to the Third Millennium 37 At Home with the Celts 38 Cassie At Six 39 Topspin Theory 40 Lotus 41 Dreamtime 42 Abigail's Wedding 43 Amanda 44 Blue Rosette 45 Out on the Hustings, 1974 46 Oxfords of the Mind 47 Autumn Effect at Argenteuil 48 Spirit Horse 49 Midlander 52 On Connecting 53 Howling Wolf 54 Soraya and the Spider 57 May Morning 58 May Sunday 59 Reminiscence at the Community Centre 60 Making 61 Kissing in English 62 After Astrup 63 On Woodland

Additional information

GOR013626594
9781780374345
1780374348
Spiritlands by Sarah Wardle
Used - Like New
Paperback
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
20190221
64
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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