by RodMengham (Author)
Rod Mengham's new offering comprises two complementary halves, one is a poetic meditation on a place (the Bronze Age site of Grimspound, on Dartmoor) and the other is a series of short essays on different cultural habitats. `Grimspound' is a four-part work combining prose and verse, composed on site over the course of ten years. It combines a `wild analysis' of Hound of the Baskervilles (whose climactic scene takes place at Grimspound), a portrait of the Victorian excavator Sabine Baring-Gould, and a series of poems that draw on the Russian linguist Aharon Dolgopolsky's experimental `Nostratic Dictionary'. `Inhabiting Art' gathers essays on cultural history in relation to landscape and cityscape, viewed either episodically or in the form of a palimpsest, where the present state of the habitat both reveals and conceals its own history and prehistory.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: 1
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
Published: 29 Nov 2018
ISBN 10: 1784105902
ISBN 13: 9781784105907