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PAMPHLET
Shingle
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Bethany Mitchell
£8.99
£14.00
RRP £12.00
ISBN 978-1-915760-02-9
Shingle is a long poem which investigates the beaches of North Norfolk through an ecocritical lens. In this piece, Bethany Mitchell inspects the shifting meaning of a place under pressure from natural and human forces. Just as the language of the poem is unstable - never resting in one place or meaning - so too are the coastlines facing the impact of rising sea levels and erosion.
PRAISE FOR SHINGLE
Something happened’, begins this evocative poem of rich noticings, where the Norfolk coastline is a ‘reel of colour + picture + life’. Events are taking place: mysteriously, grievously, explicably. I am reminded of CA Conrad’s injunction in poetry to inhabit the ‘extreme present’, and here the present is figured as a plastiglomerate of beautifully wrought particulars. The poem asks the question of whether observation…
— Lila Matsumoto, Two Twin Pipes Spout Water
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Bethany Mitchell is a poet and writer whose work is experimental, ecological, and site-specific. Her poetry inspects local landscapes and interactions had within them, and seeks to destabilise hierarchies of human/non-human. Her writing has most recently appeared in the Crested Tit Collective’s Rewilding anthology, Osmosis press’s featured writing, and Visual Verse. She can be found on Twitter @bethjmitch
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