What to Look for in Spring
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| Expected release date is Jul 20th 2027 |
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Product Details
Author:
Esther Morgan
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Publisher:
Bloodaxe Books (July 20, 2027)
Imprint:
Bloodaxe Books
Release Date:
July 20, 2027
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9781780377667
ISBN-10:
1780377665
Weight:
12oz
Dimensions:
6.25" x 9.25"
File:
CONSORTIUM-Consortium_Customer_Group_Metadata_20260824174250-20260824.xml
Folder:
CONSORTIUM
List Price:
$18.95
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Pub Discount:
60
Case Pack:
3
As low as:
$16.30
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
C
Overview
Esther Morgan’s What to Look for in Spring asks what ‘home’ might come to mean in a rapidly warming world where the ‘handful of birds and plants we know by name’ are already starting to disappear. The once commonplace sights and sounds of an English spring evoke the ghosts of Wordsworth, Hardy, Edward Thomas and others in poems which also probe our nostalgia for a vision of England that ignores the class structures on which it was based.Throughout, Morgan fuses tenderness and terror in poems which examine how climate change threatens to make migrants and exiles of us all.
Set against this sense of rupture are two sequences based on the art of John Crome (1768-1821) and John Constable (1776-1837). Crome’s honouring of the overlooked in his Norfolk landscapes prompts an approach which offers a quietly radical alternative to click-bait and outrage. Constable’s famous sky studies by contrast are the springboard for poems as wake-up calls to the spirit – keen as an easterly wind or a dash of cold water to the face.
In her fifth collection – her most ambitious and formally inventive to date – Esther Morgan extends her imaginative territory while retaining her lyric gifts to make home and its loss a tangible reality – piercing as the screams of swifts ‘like a fairground ride/on the other side of living’.
