Nigh-No-Place

Jen Hadfield · 2008 CE · Poem · English · Contemporary

Landscapes of Shetland and of Canada fill poems written in a Shetland-inflected English with dialect words and sudden coinages. The speaker is a restless incomer and watcher of birds, weather and ground. A lyric collection by the youngest poet to have won the Eliot Prize, filed with English as Scottish writing in English.

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