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Lode
Allnutt, Gillian, 1949-2025
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The 'lode' in Gillian Allnutt's title picks up on two of the many meanings of the word. A lode can be a course, a way, a journey; also a road, a lane. Her collection traces a journey through time, the time of her own life and of our lives, since the Second World War. Lode also means guidance, here related to continuity and relative stability. The lode in Gillian Allnutt's title picks up on two of the many meanings of the word. A lode can be a course, a way, a journey; also a road, a lane. Her collection traces a journey through time, the time of her own life and of our lives, since the Second World War. Lode also means guidance, here the guidance afforded by the continuity and relative stability - economic, cultural, spiritual - of Britain's postwar years, the setting of the first part of the book. That sense of stability ended with Covid, which found Gillian Allnutt isolated in the former pit village of Esh Winning in Co. Durham, her home for the past 30 years, the landscape of much of the middle section of the book. The poems in the book's third part, Earth-hoard, are raids on the new Unknowable, drawing on the habitual resources of the old known world, informed by spiritual traditions, especially Christianity; by English literature; and by the old habit of writing about a natural world which is now threatened as never before.
Main title:
Lode / Gillian Allnutt.
Author:
Allnutt, Gillian, 1949-, author
Work:
Imprint:
Hexham : Bloodaxe Books, 2025.
Collation:
80 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
POSTWAR12 Audience13 Corbridge14 refugee born London 194915 Dunstanburgh16 a place beyond belief17 Berthe18 Crabapple moon19 Poem for John Clinging20 Pink Jenkins21 Private Passion22 Flame-thrower24 My father, mislaid25 note-- LOCKDOWN28 Golden Saxifrage29 On having to leave York University without the clock30 Azuma Meditation31 The Walk (allowed)32 If these days should be final33 My Garden in Esh Winning34 Lockdown35 The way she remembered it37 To be honest38 At 7139 Marney's Boots40 Mask-- EARTH-HOARD42 `Wouldst thou witten thy Lord's meaning in this thing?'43 At Ware44 Beechwood45 of the trees in the wood by the old pit line46 summertime47 Germander Speedwell Veronica chamaedrys (Linn.)48 Do the birds worry?49 Solitude50 The Song of Arachnid51 My hands, yes52 I love this poor earth for I have known no other53 Trist54 dark night of the soul55 Footnote56 Afternoon in the Garden57 Found Poem58 Flneur59 for only then can60 Sea Change-- 63 Notes-- 71 Roughage
ISBN:
9781780377452 (pbk)
Dewey class:
821.92
LC class:
PR6051.L549
Language:
English
BRN:
916114