Storm Pegs
A Life Made in Shetland
- Auteur: Jen Hadfield (Engeland)
- Soort boek: memoir, verhalen over de Shetlandeilanden
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Picador
- Verschijnt: 11 juli 2024
- Omvang: 368 pagina’s
- Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Jen Hadfield Storm Pegs recensie en review
- “Storm Pegs perfectly captures the knotting of language and landscape. I was transported.” (Katherine May)
- “Storm Pegs is rich, attentive and beautifully written. Hadfield writes vividly about the tides, the Shaetlan language, and shows a great appreciation for the people and modern life of Shetland. This book has been my friend. I really loved it and I recommend it.” (Amy Liptrot)
- “What a wonderful book. Jen Hadfield just has to turn her languaged gaze to the world and it fizzes to life on the page. One of the most intensely realised accounts of a place – and time in a place – I have read.” (Philip Marsden)
Flaptekst van het boek over Shetland van Jen Hadfield
In her late twenties, celebrated poet Jen Hadfield moved to the Shetland archipelago to make her life anew. A scattering of islands at the northernmost point of the United Kingdom, frequently cut off from the mainland by storms, Shetland is a place of Vikings and myths, of ancient languages and old customs, of breathtaking landscapes and violent weather. It has long fascinated travellers seeking the edge of the world.
On these islands known for their isolation and drama, Hadfield found something more: a place teeming with life, where rare seabirds blow in on Atlantic gales, seals and dolphins visit its beaches, and wild folk festivals carry the residents through long, dark winters. She found a close-knit community, too, of neighbours always willing to lend a boat or build a creel, of women wild-swimming together in the star-spangled winter seas. Over seventeen years, as bright summer nights gave way to storm-lashed winters, she learned new ways to live.
In prose as rich and magical as Shetland itself, Hadfield transports us to the islands as a local; introducing us to the remote and beautiful archipelago where she has made her home, and shows us new ways of living at the edge.
Jen Hadfield (1978) lives in Shetland. Her first collection Almanacs won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003. Her second collection Nigh-No-Place won the T. S. Eliot Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. She won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Competition in 2012. Her collection The Stone Age won the Highland Book Prize in 2022.
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Uitgever: De Arbeiderspers
Verschijnt: 29 oktober 2024