
Home Farm
by Janet Sutherland
Title:
Home Farm
Author:
Janet Sutherland
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
108 pages
Publisher:
Shearsman Books Limited
ISBN-13:
9781848616431
EAN:
9781848616431
Classifications:
Poetry
Weight (g):
294
Dimensions (mm):
152 x 227 x 12
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
In her fourth collection, Home Farm, Janet Sutherland explores the farm where she grew up; a ninety-acre dairy farm in Wiltshire, rented by her parents, where they milked 50 cows and reared heifers on the nearby water meadows. The collection examines the farm as home from early beginnings to the farm auction at the end of their working lives. It is a poetry of landscape and water, of birds, beasts and other creatures, of life lived cheek by jowl with death, of memory and forgetfulness; all of it rooted in place. There’s an engaging inventiveness of form: a disused water mill reveals poems in its old bricks, the drowner revels in his craft, the work of the farm is observed with rigour and lyricism,investigating the uses of memory and landscape as routes to understanding. The final sections zoom outwards, challenging us to look at earth itself as a home farm.










