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Alstonefield
Paperback
Main Details
| Title |
Alstonefield
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Peter Riley
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback | | Pages:144 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 217,Width 137 |
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| Category/Genre | Poetry by individual poets |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781857546484
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| Classifications | Dewey:821.92 |
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| Audience | | General | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | |
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| Edition |
New edition
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Carcanet Press Ltd
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| Imprint |
Carcanet Press Ltd
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| Publication Date |
11 December 2003 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
This long poem in 10-line stanzas is named after a small limestone village in the north Staffordshire Peak District. It is a poem about passage, transformation, and the resources of the imagination in quest of a sense of justice. Divided into five sections, the poem's first four sections are short poetical meditations on place and landscape, memory, and imagination in a humanized enclosure. The much longer fifth section brushes with philosophical, political, and other human discourses.
Author Biography
Peter Riley is a bookseller and a former English teacher at the University of Odense.
ReviewsOne of Britain s major, if insufficiently recognized, poets. John Kinsella, "The Observer""
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