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Katrina Porteous has been living and working alongside the fishermen of the Northumberland village of Beadnell for the past five years. Half the poems in The Lost Music celebrate her love of the place and its people. Her first collection also includes some of her own drawings featuring both fishing and industry in decline as well the wildlife of North-East England. All her poems are strongly physical in character, written to be read aloud. They take as their starting-point the tensions between time and eternity, change and stillness. In language which is both passionate and controlled, they express the endless struggle to discover new forms of order. The fishing poems develop these themes within a microcosm of the wider world. In a dialogue between her own voice and the fishermen's dialect, Katrina Porteous traces the identity of the community in its common memory and working practices, finding with the passing of the old ways of life a loss of spiritual direction. The poems suggest the way forward is neither to cling to the past nor to abandon it, but to change and remember.

Book details

Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Lost Music
• Author: Katrina Porteous
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72
• EAN: 9781852243807
• ISBN: 1852243805
• ID: 05110078
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Weight: 112 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 4 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. August 1996

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