Byssus is Jen Hadfield's third collection, and her first after the
T.S. Eliot prize-winning Nigh-No-Place. Byssus - pronounced
'bissus', and meaning the mussel's 'beard', the tough fibres which
anchor it to the seabed - is a book first and foremost about home,
and what it takes to find and forge one: amongst friends, alert to
mortality, to love and to landscape. Her language, strongly rooted
in the common names she finds in the sea, shore and moor of her
adopted Shetland, has already been widely admired for its startling
originality. Here, through poems of astonishment and adoration,
through charms and fables, and ultimately through a practice of
attention and careful honouring - she shows how speech itself can
be an act of home-making. Byssus is a profound consideration of
just what it means to get to know a place.
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