Soil. By Tim Cresswell. London: Penned in the Margins

摘要

Tim Cresswell's Soil is an intriguing debut collection that combines deep geographical knowledge and understanding with the kinds of specific details of an individual's life in particular situations. A sequence of four poems, 'Human Geography Ⅰ, Ⅱ, Ⅲ and Ⅳ', redefines and broadens the notion of the human and the geographies within which it might exist. Written in prose paragraphs and punctuated by a dash, details of a domestic family life are set against the international mobile life of the working academic, where clothes are left 'piled on the landing, outside the room where my wife still sleeps' so that he can dress quietly and slip away.