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Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems is a 2020 collection of poems by the English poet Simon Armitage. All 50 of the poems, written throughout his career, relate to places in his home village of Marsden, West Yorkshire. The book contains maps of the village, showing where each poem is situated.
Mar 15, 2020 · Magnetic Field brings together Armitage’s Marsden poems, from his very first pamphlet to new work from a forthcoming collection. It offers personal insight into a preoccupation that shows no signs of fading, and his perspective on a locality he describes as ‘transcendent and transgressive’, a genuinely unique region forming a frontier ...
Mar 17, 2020 · This edition gathers all the Marsden poems together to create a 'poetry of place' edition, which will offer a new way of appraising Simon's body of work, as well as celebrating this...
- Simon Armitage
- Faber & Faber, 2020
- 0571361463, 9780571361465
- Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems
Magnetic Field brings together Armitage's Marsden poems, from his very first pamphlet to new work from a forthcoming collection. It offers personal insight into a preoccupation that...
Apr 1, 2021 · Magnetic Field brings together Armitage's Marsden poems, from his very first pamphlet to new work from a forthcoming collection. It offers personal insight into a preoccupation that shows no signs of fading, and his perspective on a locality he describes as 'transcendent and transgressive', a genuinely unique region forming a frontier territory ...
- (96)
- Paperback
- Simon Armitage
Jan 1, 2020 · Magnetic Field spans 1988-2019 and collects together fifty poems connected to Marsden where Armitage was born. Geography has widened its scope over this period (as a friend, who is a geographer, pointed out to me) and includes many varied areas, including geographical poetics.
Jun 27, 2024 · In Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems, we have a love letter to a muse that was there for the poet at the beginning and has continued to be a source of inspiration through to the present day. The poems about the village have been organised chronologically in terms of when the subject matter is set.
