{"product_id":"soil-tim-cresswell-9781908058157","title":"Soil","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A distinctive, important new voice\" - Jo Shapcott\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTim Cresswell's poems delight in language and geography, and the collision point of the natural and the urban. A fox climbs to the top of a London skyscraper; sandworts take root in abandoned mine shafts; and geological time is glimpsed through the 'crushed structures' of the city. Cresswell is interested in hinterlands, the in-between places: airport lounges, urban parks, the muddy verge of a river. The title sequence is a startling examination of man's relationship with the very stuff of earth, redeploying the language of science and archaeology with surgical precision and innovative flair. \u003cem\u003eSoil\u003c\/em\u003e introduces Tim Cresswell as a significant new poet of place, and our changing relationship to it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If this poetry was a geological formation, it would be layered and folded, with scientific knowledge and a quick linguistic wit, with echoes of folk song, unsentimental ecological awareness, word games and a sharp but not unkind eye on the everyday - all this, but metamorphic too, fused by human warmth into a memorable voice.\"\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Gross \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTim Cresswell \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of four books on the role of space and mobility on cultural life. \u003cem\u003eSoil \u003c\/em\u003eis his first collection of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tim Cresswell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1908058153\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781908058157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penned in the Margins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.19d","brand":"Tim Cresswell","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43939143778559,"sku":"9781908058157","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_ae0cae25-d788-482f-92af-e48ab0678fce.jpg?v=1681439751","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/soil-tim-cresswell-9781908058157","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}