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In this experimental dream-poem a famous European cathedral literally takes off and travels - as in a Japanese animated film - calling in at the Sargasso Sea, then the West Mariana Ridge in the western Pacific, and on to the Transantarctic Mountains. On board are a small band of people who happen to be in the cathedral when she takes off, led by a young and bemused cathedral canon. The East Anglian Fenland - especially as it was in early medieval times - lies deep within the cathedral's sense of herself and her people as she travels the globe. But she isn't all local memory; her twenty-first-century almost-silent Octagon engyn powers her and her crew on a tour through geological and historic time. In her newfound freedom the cathedral gets up close and personal with Archean grey gneiss, discovers eel leptocephali, finds magical ancient plants in her own transept, and welcomes a stowaway cat called Mrs Chippy. Drawing on many sources of inspiration, including Geoffrey Chaucer's The House of Fame, this poem is surreal, intricate and sometimes comic.

Table of Contents:
Ely: An experimental dream-poem; Part 1: Up, up and away; Part 2: Domestic; Part 3: Geography; Part 4: What is she doing?; Part 5: Joys of the lady Chapel; Part 6: It is no litel thinge; Part 7: Blue skies liturgy; Part 8: the return of the native; Poem notes; Background ideas; Acknowledgements

About the Author :
Peter grew up in the North of England. He attended Durham University, living for his first year just down the road from Durham Cathedral. He trained in clinical psychology at Glasgow University, and has a PhD from Liverpool University. He and his wife lived in North Wales for 20 years where their children grew up. They now live in Suffolk, close to the Fens and the Brecks. Peter has taught at Bangor and Cambridge Universities, and worked in the NHS for many years as a children's clinical psychologist. He now has a visiting fellowship at Essex University, where his research interest is in how best to support young adults in transition from foster care and residential care. He has been writing poetry for a few years now, with a publication in Envoi. Ely: An experimental dream poem' is his first long poem.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781789631890
  • Publisher: The Choir Press
  • Publisher Imprint: The Choir Press
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 52
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 118 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1789631890
  • Publisher Date: 16 Mar 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 127 mm


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