{"id":2355,"date":"2019-02-13T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/?p=2355"},"modified":"2019-02-18T16:12:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T16:12:49","slug":"nancy-gaffield-meridian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/english-news\/2019\/02\/13\/nancy-gaffield-meridian\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Gaffield: Meridian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between 2015 and 2017, Nancy Gaffield walked the 270-mile Greenwich Meridian Trail from Peacehaven to Sand le Mere, in order to investigate the way that landscapes are disturbed and reordered by history and memory. In\u00a0Meridian, the line of longitude is the \u2018zero point\u2019 through which these forces speak: the intersecting planes of poetry and song, politics and the polis, land and sea, presence and absence, shadow and light.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>A beautifully produced 112-page hardback, Meridian<\/em> is published by Longbarrow Press earlier this month. You can read an excerpt from Part I of Meridian<\/em> here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Nancy Gaffield\u2019s bravely resourceful long poem takes us \u2018true North\u2019 with her along the variegated trails marking England\u2019s portion of the Meridian. Her lithe, varied poetic lines embody the present and the historic, the minute and the gargantuan, the simple and complex, the everyday and the artistic, the expected and the surprising\u2014the physical, mental, and emotional experience of her explorations. Combining meditations, reactions, observations, memories with striking ideas, inspired descriptions, literary recalls, the poem captures everything from dirt to ecology to philosophy. Readers will prize this important, inspiring book: the Line, lines, a life brilliantly fused”. – Lou Rowan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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