Description
A vivid poetic record of daily life on a working farm, this collection finds beauty, brutality, and wonder in the rhythms of rural labor. Drawing on close observation of animals, weather, landscape, and human endurance, the poems reject idealized pastoral imagery in favor of an earthy, unsentimental vision of nature. The collection also includes a moving tribute to farm worker Jack Orchard, deepening its meditations on companionship, mortality, and loss. Direct, muscular, and intensely attentive, these poems showcase a distinctive voice grounded in physical reality and emotional truth.
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paperback
Faber and Faber
Published Jan 1, 1989
68 pages
ISBN: 057114084X
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Details
First Published
1989
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Moortown Diary by Ted Hughes.