Goyle, Chert, Mire
$29.64
- Paperback
64 pages
- Release Date
18 August 2026
Summary
A book-length sequence of poems about place, time, illness and recovery.
Each of the three sections in Goyle, Chert, Mire focuses on one of the distinctive elements characteristic of the Blackdown Hills - a little-known, sparsely populated area straddling the border between Somerset and Devon - and in particular the remote springline valley where the author lives. In this unique landscape, relatively unchanged over the centuries, the past is so evident that it can come to see…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781787335912 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1787335917 |
| Author: | Jean Sprackland |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Jonathan Cape |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 64 |
| Release Date: | 18 August 2026 |
| Weight: | 86g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 132mm x 197mm |
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Critics Review
Unlike many nature poems that sentimentalise, the book is alive to the limits of human agency… This is a profound, enduring collection * Guardian *
Jean Sprackland
Jean Sprackland is the author of five poetry collections, including Tilt, which won the 2007 Costa Poetry Award.
She has also published two works of non-fiction:
- Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach, which won the 2012 Portico Prize.
- These Silent Mansions: A Life in Graveyards, published in 2020.
Her forthcoming titles are:
- Night Vision, a non-fiction exploration of darkness, due in November 2025.
- Goyle, Chert, Mire, her latest poetry collection, due in April 2026.
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