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The Lost Music

The Lost Music

Porteous, Katrina

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1852243805
ISBN13: 9781852243807
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: Aug 27 1996
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
Katrina Porteous has lived in the Northumberland village of Beadnell for the past thirty years, formerly home to a centuries-old fishing community. 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.

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