Homecoming
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The poems in Andrew Forster's third collection continue his explorations of what it means to make a home: from Cumbria, where he now lives, to South Yorkshire where he grew up, this book is firmly rooted in the north of England. He works as Literature Officer for the Wordsworth Trust and the ghost of Wordsworth, that supreme poet of home, haunts many of these poems. As the poet approaches middle age, this is a book of settling down, of beginning to be content with what we have managed to distil from life.

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Publisher
Smith|Doorstop Books
Year
2014
ISBN
9781910367384
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
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Literature




Homecoming

Andrew Forster

Acknowledgements
Thanks are due to the editors of the following publications, where some of these poems, or earlier versions of then, first appeared: Entanglements: New Eco-Poetry (Two Ravens Press); The Sheffield Anthology: Poems from the City Imagined (smith|doorstop);The Captain’s Tower: Seventy Poets for Bob Dylan’s 70th Birthday (Seren); From Childhood’s Hour (Ledbury Poetry Festival); Sculpted (North West Poets); Not On Our Green Belt (North West Poets); The Reader.
A number of these poems appeared as a limited edition pamphlet, ‘Digging’, illustrated by Hugh Bryden and published by Roncadora Press in 2010. Thanks are also due once again to Hugh Bryden for his wonderful cover art.
‘Lindale Hill’ was commissioned by Cumbria County Council Library Service for its Reading Detectives project in 2010.
The second stanza of ‘April in Town End’, was produced as a poster and postcard by North West Libraries’ Time to Read as part of their Perfect Places project in 2012, as ‘April in Dove Cottage’.
‘Grasmere Green: Summer Equinox’ was written for ‘Solstice’, a project devised and edited by Sarah Hymas & Rebecca Bilkau.
The author is grateful to Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers for a Fellowship in 2012 which gave the valuable gift of time to write a number of these poems and to shape this collection. Thanks are due also to Michael McGregor and the Wordsworth Trust for supporting this Fellowship.
The author would like to acknowledge the financial support of a New Writing North Northern Writers Award supported by Northumbria University and Arts Council England.
Special thanks to my friends whose careful insights ...

Table of contents

  1. At Carstairs Junction
  2. Digging
  3. Ullswater
  4. Bats
  5. Grasmere: Summer Evening
  6. Lindale Hill
  7. Greenhead Ghyll
  8. Grange-over-Sands
  9. Morecambe Bay
  10. Horses at Castle Head
  11. Wordsworth Skating
  12. Snow in Lindale
  13. Kentmere Valley
  14. Standing Water
  15. Snakes
  16. Easedale Tarn
  17. Swans
  18. On The Waterwitch
  19. Elterwater
  20. Humphrey Head
  21. The Hospice
  22. Dove Cottage
  23. De Quincey’s Letter to Johnny Wordsworth 1809
  24. April in Town End
  25. Sheep at Night
  26. Bowness: Early Morning
  27. Training
  28. Grasmere Green: Summer Equinox
  29. Silencing the Bells
  30. Dusk in Lindale
  31. The Duddon Valley
  32. Meathop Road: Autumn
  33. Hampsfell
  34. Fishing with Raymond Carver
  35. Roslin Glen
  36. Hawthornden Castle
  37. The Gift of Snow
  38. Passing
  39. Wearing Glasses
  40. Power
  41. The Cottage
  42. Message in a Bottle
  43. Songlines
  44. Leadburn
  45. Homecoming
  46. About the Author