At the beginning of 2006, Linda France set herself the challenge of writing a renga verse every day for twelve months. Renga dates from 10th century Japan, when poets would gather together over tea or sake to write verses about the seasons, nature, love and the moon - the phenomenal world of change and decay. Adapting the classical Japanese form, Linda France has created a new one, the world's first 'year renga'. Friends, walks, the weather, things seen, heard and read, became her collaborators in 365 word pictures that bear witness to the flow of things, inside and out, the numinous and the everyday.Illustrated by Sue Dunne's striking ceramic fragments - reliefs created by casting flowers, leaves and branches found in the woods and hedgerows of Northumberland as a year unfolds - book of days is concerned with paying attention to the world, natural and man-made, its mystery and significance, in a time when the seasons are out of kilter.

Book of Days

Literature & Fiction

France, Linda

Poetry

Smokestack Books

Bloodaxe Books Ltd.

<p>After charting lows and highs in her previous two collections, Storyville reveals Linda France exploring the longitude and latitude of her familiar territory - the badlands of love and sex, music and memory. The book is divided into three parts. Storyville: improvisations on the theme of jazz. Home Movies: poems about remembering and forgetting, about the life in art and the art in life. And On the Game: a series of pieces addressing the problem of prostitution. She's still seduced by extremes - equally at home with grit and velvet, still greedy for rich imagery and exotic allusions - but this new work introduces a greater distance, an awareness that the map isn't the same as the territory.</p>

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