Growing up in Marsden among the hills of West Yorkshire, Simon
Armitage has always associated his early poetic experiences with
the night-time view from his bedroom window, those 'private,
moonstruck observations' and the clockwork comings and goings in
the village providing rich subject matter for his first poems.
Decades on, that window continues to operate as both framework and
focal point for the writing, the vastness of the surrounding moors
always at his shoulder and forming a constant psychological
backdrop, no matter how much time has elapsed and how distant those
experiences. Magnetic Field brings together Armitage's Marsden
poems, from his very first pamphlet to new work from a forthcoming
collection. It offers personal insight into a preoccupation that
shows no signs of fading, and his perspective on a locality he
describes as 'transcendent and transgressive', a genuinely unique
region forming a frontier territory between many different worlds.
Magnetic Field also invites questions about the forging of
identity, the precariousness of memory, and our attachment to
certain places and the forces they exert.
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