28-04-2022 | 336 pagina's
9781526644244
Hardback
€ 25,50
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'An absolute gem ... I was delightfully lost by the river throughout' - Paul Whitehouse'Marvellous.The Catch leaves both its writer and its reader wonderfully "lost in water"' - Robert Macfarlane'Penetrating and poetic, filled with honeyed prose and thoughtful criticism' - The Times_______________It is in the midst of a swirling river, casting a line, that Mark Wormald meets Ted Hughes. He stands where the poet stood, forty years ago, because fishing was Ted Hughes's way of breathing - and because the poet's writing has made Mark understand that it has always been his way of breathing, too.Using Hughes's poetry collection River and his fishing diaries as a guide, Mark returns again and again to the rivers and lakes in Britain and Ireland where the poet fished. At times, he uses Ted's fly patterns; at others his rods. It is an obsession; a fundamental connection to nature; a thrilling wildness; an elemental pursuit. But it is also a release and a consolation, as Mark fishes after the sudden death of his mother and during the slow fading of his father. A brilliant blend of memoir and biography, The Catch is a stunning meditation on poetry and nature, and a quiet reflection on what it means to be a father and a son.
Mark Wormald has been fishing since the age of four. He is an award-winning poet, winning the Newdigate Prize at Oxford in 1988 and an E. C. Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 1995.Mark has been a Fellow in English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, since 1992. He edited Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers for Penguin Classics and more recently co-edited two collections of essays: Ted Hughes: from Cambridge to Collected (2013) and Ted Hughes, Nature and Culture (2018).
TV INTEREST: Mark is currently working on Casting and Gathering: a Painter and Two Poets: the story of the friendship between Barrie Cooke, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney.
EAN : | 9781526644244 |
Uitgever : | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
Publicatie datum : | 28-04-2022 |
Uitvoering : | Hardback |
Hoogte : | 239 mm |
Breedte : | 155 mm |
Dikte : | 33 mm |
Gewicht : | 634 gr |
Status : | Te bestellen bij leverancier |
Aantal pagina's : | 336 |