The Hill
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Angela France's The Hill is a remarkable sequence of poems that leads us up the winding footpaths of Leckhampton Hill near Cheltenham. Under our feet are fossils and flora, bones and the relics of quarrying. France is masterful in capturing the sense of place and weaving the entrancing voices of the hill, its walkers and inhabitants, into the fabric of these formally adventurous poems that range from prose to 'anglish', richly worded and delighting in their shapes and sounds.

Here, we encounter ghosts, foxes and ancient kings. We meet the protestors who, years before the Kinder Scout Trespassers, were standing up for their rambling rights and took the law into their own hands in 1902 when a landowner tried to enclose the hill they had walked for generations. And though history is never far from the surface, The Hill raises questions that are just as important today; who has the right to roam, whose land is it, anyway?

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Publisher
Nine Arches Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9781911027362
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Contents

Voices found on the hill
Landslip
Nadder speaks
Trails and Ways I
The King’s Touch
Dale bought the quarries…
Map Reading
Hauke sees
Calling the Witnesses
Remembrance
Sparrow says men from Bath Road…
Trails and Ways II
Aged Witness #3: Sparrow Hiscock
Brock says
Footfall
they called him king…
Fences
Aged Witness #5: Dorothea Trye
Trails and Ways III
Miss Beale sent a hundred girls…
Tuneless
Trails and Ways IV
Aged Witness #8: William Tilling
The Harp
it was submitted that to be a riot…
Echoes
Trails and Ways V
Shroud
Aged Witness #11: William Ballinger
Balancing Point
Fox
Trails and Ways VI
the king’s away…
Timeless
Aged Witness #7: Thomas Hawkes
Trails and Ways VII
The Wall
the king returned from jail…
Wort-cropper
Naming
Trails and Ways VIII
Wilding
Greed
Cold Comfort
First Footing
and Nadder says
Litany for a Hillside
Acknowledgements
About the Author & this book
“Don’t steal the goose from the common, or you will get jail, but steal the common from the goose, and you will be let off without a stain on your character”
– William Sparrow, 1902

Voices found on the hill

loads of mad quarry bits up by Devil’s Chimney
a fabulous limestone outcrop overlooking Cheltenham
easy dirt tracks technical climbs swooping singletrack
Yellowhammers Bullfinches Linnets Goldcrests
charged on remand with breaking destroying a fence
to the amount of 10/- property of the Quarries Company
purchased by Mr H.J. Dale
Common Rock Rose Wild Thyme Autumn Gentian Orchid
limestone clay spackled face paint the whoops coming back down
Foxes Shrews Hedgehogs Moles Bats and Badgers.
the cliffs in the quarry are choss top outs are bad
it was determined by a large body of men
that Cratchley’s cottage must be removed
exposure of the whole Lower Inferior Oolite formation
one outcrop area we further give...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Epigraph
  7. Voices found on the hill
  8. Landslip
  9. Nadder speaks
  10. Trails and Ways I
  11. The King’s Touch
  12. Map Reading
  13. Hauke sees
  14. Calling the Witnesses
  15. Remembrance
  16. Trails and Ways II
  17. Aged Witness #3: Sparrow Hiscock
  18. Brock says
  19. Footfall
  20. Fences
  21. Aged Witness #5: Dorothea Trye
  22. Trails and Ways III
  23. Tuneless
  24. Trails and Ways IV
  25. Aged Witness #8: William Tilling
  26. The Harp
  27. Echoes
  28. Trails and Ways V
  29. Shroud
  30. Aged Witness #11: William Ballinger
  31. Balancing Point
  32. Fox
  33. Trails and Ways VI
  34. Timeless
  35. Aged Witness #7: Thomas Hawkes
  36. Trails and Ways VII
  37. The Wall
  38. Wort-cropper
  39. Naming
  40. Trails and Ways VIII
  41. Wilding
  42. Greed
  43. Cold Comfort
  44. First Footing
  45. and Nadder says
  46. Litany for a Hillside
  47. Acknowledgements
  48. About the Author & this book