The glacial stairway
Riley, Peter, 1940-2011
Book
This world collects almost a decade's new poems and sequences by the Cambridge-based author Peter Riley. Most of the longer pieces derive from experiencing an unfamiliar place, in this book, highland and wilderness. Featuring a decade's worth of work by British poet Peter Riley, this collection explores the pressures of history, culture, language, and place on the traveler through questioning lyrical poems and monologues. Most of these pieces derive from the experience of unfamiliar places from highland to wilderness, notably the Pyrenees, the Apennines, Derbyshire, Haute Provence, and the American West. Riley is keenly conscious of natural surroundings, and this compilation becomes a venue for the self-questioning of place and person.
Main title:
The glacial stairway / Peter Riley.
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Imprint:
Manchester : Carcanet, 2011.
Collation:
98 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Formerly CIP. UkIncludes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9781847770790 (pbk)
Dewey class:
821.914
Language:
English
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BRN:
315632