Poetry. In FIENDS FELL, Tom Pickard charts a single year out of a decade spent on a bare hilltop near the English-Scottish border, with the roaring wind as his only guide. In journal entries interspersed with lyrics and poems, as in Japanese haibun, he records his daily life on the fells: landmarks of border balladry, weather and wildlife, bankruptcy and lust, the struggle between appetite and attainment (in Basil Bunting's words). The result is, among other things, a record of making, its trials and loneliness, its flashes ...
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Poetry. In FIENDS FELL, Tom Pickard charts a single year out of a decade spent on a bare hilltop near the English-Scottish border, with the roaring wind as his only guide. In journal entries interspersed with lyrics and poems, as in Japanese haibun, he records his daily life on the fells: landmarks of border balladry, weather and wildlife, bankruptcy and lust, the struggle between appetite and attainment (in Basil Bunting's words). The result is, among other things, a record of making, its trials and loneliness, its flashes of humor and sudden grace. It culminates in Lark & Merlin, one of Pickard's finest sequences. As Ange Mlinko has commented in Poetry magazine, Pickard is a lyric poet in profound correspondence with his home in the North Pennines and with the erotic muse . . .
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