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Glacial Stairway

Glacial Stairway

by Peter Riley
Paperback
Publication Date: 24/07/2011
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"The Glacial Staircase" 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 (the Pyrannees, the Apennines, Derbyshire, Haute Provence, the American west). Other pieces are set at home, or in places the author has never been to at all. Little time is spent in describing, beyond reassuring the reader of a firm position on the earth. The localities are taken as theatres for a self-questioning of place and person. The pressures of history, culture, and the language reach across the world and confront the traveller. Written response is a shield and a shelter offered to, shared with, the innocent reader: extended disquisition and monologies, collections of fragmented noticings, and sudden bursts of song.
ISBN:
9781847770790
9781847770790
Category:
Poetry by individual poets
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
24-07-2011
Language:
English
Publisher:
Carcanet Press Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
98
Dimensions (mm):
216x135x8mm
Weight:
0.14kg
Peter Riley

Peter Riley was a science teacher for 25 years, 17 of them as Head of Science. His first book was published in 1981, and he has been a full-time author since 1996, with over 200 books published for children, students and teachers.

He is the winner of the prestigious Schoolbook Award for Science in 2000, as well as being shortlisted for the Aventis Science Prize 2004 and nominated for the Educational Resources Award in 2009.

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