Terrain Seed Scarcity

Poems from a Decade

By:

Peter Larkin

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

Salt Modern Poets

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"Terrain Seed Scarcity" opens with a selection of poems in which the concern for scarcity as a speculative edge first surfaced, and is followed by six sequences arranged in short prose clusters or stanzas, sometimes with verse tail-pieces. Four of these focus directly on trees: under the aspect of addition as a branching diversion rather than a dispersal; the co-forms of forest evoked as edge, line and verticality; plantations as parallels to a re-covered, stretched centre; a lean, denuded outcrop of trees better served by what wheels around it than by what it fails to contain. Some of these sequences are accompanied by brief essays as sideshoots or offshoots. Other poems work through the sourcefulness of an environmental sink figured also as recess or protection, and there is a set of minimalist sententiae which rework 18th century landscape aesthetics. The collection ends with a cycle of syllabic poems, 'Spirit of the Trees' derived from a once popular anthology. Some of the more recent material is published here for the first time.

Author Biography:

Peter Larkin was born in 1946 and has been Philosophy & Literature Librarian at Warwick University for many years, with research interests in ecocriticism and postmodern theology. He runs Prest Roots Press with its commitment to affordable fine press work. He has contributed to Reality Studios, Fragmente, Parataxis, Talisman, Shearsman, Inscape, Salt, Terrible Work and Angelaki and appeared in Ten British Poets (1993).

Release date Australia

January 1st, 2001

Author

Peter Larkin

Collection

Australia

Audience

General (US: Trade)

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Interest Age

From 13 to 21 years

Pages

216

Series

Salt Modern Poets

Dimensions

140x216x12

ISBN-13

9781876857080

Product ID

2829754

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