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The Catch - Fishing for Ted Hughes (Paperback)
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The Catch - Fishing for Ted Hughes (Paperback)
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List price R352
Loot Price R289
Discovery Miles 2 890
You Save R63 (18%)
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‘An absolute gem ... I was delightfully lost by the river
throughout’ - Paul Whitehouse ‘Marvellous…The Catch leaves
both its writer and its reader wonderfully "lost in water"’ -
Robert Macfarlane ‘Penetrating and poetic, filled with honeyed
prose and thoughtful criticism’ - The Times _______________ It is
in the midst of a swirling river, casting a line, that Mark Wormald
meets Ted Hughes. He stands where the poet stood, forty years ago,
because fishing was Ted Hughes’s way of breathing – and because
the poet's writing has made Mark understand that it has always been
his way of breathing, too. Using Hughes’s poetry collection River
and his fishing diaries as a guide, Mark returns again and again to
the rivers and lakes in Britain and Ireland where the poet fished.
At times, he uses Ted's fly patterns; at others his rods. It is an
obsession; a fundamental connection to nature; a thrilling
wildness; an elemental pursuit. But it is also a release and a
consolation, as Mark fishes after the sudden death of his mother
and during the slow fading of his father. A brilliant blend of
memoir and biography, The Catch is a stunning meditation on poetry
and nature, and a quiet reflection on what it means to be a father
and a son.
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