by Neil Curry
ISBN 978-1-9999728-9-9
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In these relaxed and elegantly written prose poems, Neil Curry seeks to intertwine – like Anglo Saxon interlace – three different timelines: the history of Lindisfarne, the canonical hours and the passing of the seasons. They are down-to-earth and relaxed pieces, steeped in their particular place and time, with a quietly meditative quality, underpinned with wry humour.
“This elegant, subtle pamphlet shifts through the geography and ancient history of Northumbria, from Lindisfarne to the tomb of Saint Cuthbert in Durham, with evocative and often witty snippets of prose-poetry. Observations upon landscape, the natural world, and the passing of time complete this astute and understated sequence, “its stillness / quietly redolent of meadowsweet and / may.” Poetry Book Society
“confidently gentle writing. Curry’s style benefits from and carries lightly a lifetime of experience as poet, biographer, critic, and translator” Alex Josephy, londongrip
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Lifelong and devoted friends, yet
sharing a desire to live in solitude — one
off the coast of Northumbria, the
other on an island on Derwent Water —
Cuthbert and Herbert, at their last
meeting, formed an agreement, in
accordance with which, on 20th of
March in the year 687, while living
some hundred miles and more apart,
they died together. Even their names
had rhymed.