A book about the blank spaces on the A-Z- the lost and unloved 'edgelands' between cities and countryside
Michael Symmons Roberts (Author) Michael Symmons Roberts was born in Preston, Lancashire in 1963. He has published six collections of poetry and received a number of accolades including the Forward Prize, the Costa Poetry Award and the Whitbread Poetry Prize. As a librettist, his work has been performed in concert halls and opera houses around the world. An award-winning broadcaster and dramatist, he has published two novels, and is Professor of Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.Paul Farley (Author) Paul Farley is the author of four collections of poetry and has won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Whitbread Poetry Award and the E.M. Forster Award. He broadcasts regularly on radio and presents The Echo Chamber on Radio 4. Edgelands, co-written with Michael Symmons Roberts, received the Royal Society of Literature's Jerwood Award and the 2011 Foyles Best Book of Ideas Award and was serialised as Radio 4 Book of the Week.
This book is a delight: witty and wryly contrarian
*Guardian*
A masterpiece of its kind... Even more uplifting is the chapter on
weather - truly one of the most extraordinary passages of prose I
have read in some time... This is, quite simply, beautiful, but it
is also typical of a beautifully conceived work of exploration, by
two emissaries to the wilderness who do the wasteland proud
*The Times*
Marvellously quirky, fascinatingly detailed and beautifully
written
*Daily Telegraph*
The edgelands, where the veneer of civilisation peels away, are the
most despised and ignored of landscapes. Ambition turns to dust in
the sewage farm and landfill site. But Farley and Roberts's
mischievous and elegant forays into these marginal wastes, show
that dust turns back to life in them - into riotous ecologies,
agitprop architecture and the wonderful business of playing. A
provocative, left-field read
*Richard Mabey*
Haunting, often inspiring book...Edgelands covers an impressive
range of politics, reminiscence, investigation and rumination
*Scotland on Sunday*
Edgelands delights with its sly, impish wit and observation
*Spectator*
Eye-opening and hugely enjoyable book ... overall this is an
original, surprising and rather wonderful addition to our
literature of place
*Sunday Telegraph*
A book that begs us to use our imaginations; to appreciate what we
pass by every day but never really see
*Metro*
This is a delightful and important book. By focusing on the
fringes, on the shabby reality of suburban life, these poets remind
us that there are always new myths for old, that the 'edgelands'
may even be our true centre
*Country Life*
With chapters on paths, dens, wastelands, business parks and many
other topics, this book has opened my eyes to all kinds of things I
might not have noticed before
*Daily Telegraph*
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