Field Days
Book description
Meadows and fields exist at the boundary where human endeavors meet the natural world. The poems in this collection are drawn from across centuries of a literary tradition that uses the pastoral landscape as setting for exploring complex and timeless questions about that encounter between human and non-human existence.
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Why read it?
1 author picked Field Days as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I have a love of fields having grown up on a farm in the west of Ireland and now living on a hillside in Co. Wicklow.
The boundaried space of a field is like a poem in how it restricts and frees, hides and reveals, protects and exposes the life within. This anthology, first published in 1998, is testimony to what fields have meant and still mean to us. Every page reveals a moving poem by one of my favourite poets; Gillian Clarke, John Clare, Thomas Hardy, Denise Levertov, Seamus Heaney, Patrick Kavanagh, Alice Oswald.
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From Jane's list on making you fall in love with nature poetry.
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