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Somerset In Verse - Exmoor To Levels In Poetry

Somerset In Verse - Exmoor To Levels In Poetry

Fearns, Daniel
Carrow, Alden

Paperback

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ISBN10: 1919473521
ISBN13: 9781919473529
Publisher: D E Fearns & Co Literary
Published: Sep 3 2026
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Somerset is a county people think they know: cider and cathedrals, the festival in the fields, the Levels under winter water. This book asks you to look again - and to look down.

From the wind-stripped summit of Dunkery Beacon to the drowning peat of the Levels, Somerset In Verse - Exmoor To Levels In Poetry reads a single county through what lies beneath its surface: the Hamstone hauled from Ham Hill, the lead the Romans smelted on Mendip, the twelve-metre tide that resets a coastline twice a day. Seventy-five poems, seventy-five places - hillfort and drowned village, toll road and nuclear reactor, each one a level laid across shifting ground.

These are not poems of nostalgia. They are poems of attention: precise and unsentimental, alive to the rock, water, weather, and human labour that shaped each place. The Tor stands over a plain it was always going to outlast. The floodwater lacks malice. The rock doesn't yearn. They simply outlast the pumps.

Somerset In Verse - Exmoor To Levels In Poetry is the fourth volume in the British Counties In Verse series, following Cornwall, North Yorkshire, and Cumbria, and continues on Alden Carrow's Poetry Podcast, where each episode sets a poem from the series alongside a guest poem from the wider tradition and unpacks the geology and history beneath it.

For readers of Robert Macfarlane, Simon Armitage, and Kathleen Jamie: read this as a map of pressures, not of roads. You will not cross this county the same way again.

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