{"product_id":"the-pale-ladder-richard-skelton-9781999971830","title":"The Pale Ladder: Selected Poems \u0026 Texts (2009-2014)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Pale Ladder\u003c\/em\u003e collects the majority of Richard Skelton's poetic writing since 2005, including work first published in 2009 through his own Sustain-Release Private Press, and selections from the Corbel Stone Press catalogue, including writing co-authored with Autumn Richardson - an endeavour which must surely constitute one of the most significant and sustained small press collaborations of recent years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver one hundred poems and texts are reprinted in \u003cem\u003eThe Pale Ladder\u003c\/em\u003e, including work from many long out-of-print and limited edition titles. In gathering these various works together for the first time, it is possible to glimpse the artist's overarching themes - the interconnecting threads - and to plot their development. Key among them is the desire to observe, to bear witness and to record the testimony of the land itself, through its many and varied agencies - its topography and weather, its flora and fauna, its place-names and dialects, and its records and archives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartyn Hudson describes this as \"a sustained reflection on the nature of land and biography\" - an \"idiosyncratic archiving of local topographies and the secrets they hold\". Crucially, he identifies Skelton's focus on the \"borders between the human and the non-human, and between actuality and imagination\", and it is this attention to what lies beyond material reality that characterises much of Skelton's work - his willingness to give voice to the countless others; the land's heretical and supernatural voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Skelton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1999971833\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781999971830\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Xylem Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/23\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.57d","brand":"Richard Skelton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43991322493183,"sku":"9781999971830","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c69b9804-3348-473b-9640-93c7e53a053d.jpg?v=1683309638","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-pale-ladder-richard-skelton-9781999971830","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}