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Almanacs

By Jen Hadfield

Almanacs book

Almanacs

By Jen Hadfield

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Almanacs: a mythic scrapbook, bag of cats, a one-man band... Jen Hadfield's Almanacs is concerned with lists, rules and archetypes and what they don't account for. It takes as its subjects the Tarot, the lore of Full Moons, weather myths and travellers' tales. the north of Scotland: Ultima Thule, hijacked by elusive sirens and Harrier jets. There's the ruthless Lorelei, gorgeous Ghosty who's given up on everything except the Road, and Skerryman, patron saint of bad weather and absence-makes-the-heart-grow-fonder. It's obsessed with yearning, like the two seas separated by the tip of Shetland 'metres apart/and desperate for each other.' Lorelei's Lore wonders 'what's beautiful?' (tarmac? sheep carcasses? sunburn?) and 'where's your native home?'
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
56
Release Date:
2005-02-24
Publication Date:
2005-02-24
Publisher:
Bloodaxe Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1852246871
ISBN13:
9781852246877
Weight:
112 g
Height:
137 cm
Width:
213 cm
Thickness:
6 cm
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