Geography and language collide in Soil, the debut collection of
poetry by Tim Cresswell. His poems delight in the strange and are
often situated at the cusp of the natural and urban worlds. A fox
climbs to the top of a London skyscraper; municipal trees are
displaced from their mountain habitats; sandworts take root in
abandoned mine shafts; and geological time is glimpsed through the
'crushed structures' of the city. Cresswell is interested in
hinterlands, the in-between places: airport lounges, urban parks,
the muddy verge of a river. The title sequence is a startling
examination of man's relationship with the very stuff of earth,
redeploying the language of science and archaeology with surgical
precision and an innovative flair. Already an acclaimed academic
and human geographer, this book introduces Tim Cresswell as a
significant new poet of place, and our changing relationship to it.
Soil is a striking debut - rich, multi-layered, full of organic
life and the compacted detritus of the city.
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