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    Much With Body
    Much With Body
    Much With Body
    Ebook91 pages43 minutes

    Much With Body

    By Polly Atkin

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    In Much With Body, Polly Atkin displays her gifts as a vibrant and provocative contemporary nature poet. The dramatic landscapes of the Lake District and the diaries of Dorothy Wordsworth give rise to these poems. A life-long negotiation with a set of chronic health conditions brings urgency to her warning we can't expect nature to save us.

    'A reminder to take a breath, open your eyes and observe'.- SkyLightRain

    'One to spend time with' - Caroline Bracken

    'Much With Body is an important book that spotlights at last difficult and nuanced experiences' - John McCullough

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateJul 2, 2022
    ISBN9781781726464
    Much With Body
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    Polly Atkin

    Polly Atkin is a multi-award-winning writer, essayist and poet based in Grasmere, Cumbria, where she has worked and researched at Dove Cottage, home of the Wordsworths. Her first poetry collection, Basic Nest Architecture (Seren: 2017), won a Northern Wrtier’s Award and was followed by a third pamphlet, With Invisible Rain (New Walk: 2018). Her first pamphlet, bone song (Aussteiger, 2008), was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Pamphlet Award, 2009, and second, Shadow Dispatches (Seren, 2013), won the Mslexia Pamphlet Prize, 2012.

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