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Giddings by John Greening (2021, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherMica Press Wivenhoe U.K.

ISBN-101869848284

ISBN-139781869848286

eBay Product ID (ePID)15050399093

Product Key Features

Book TitleGiddings

Number of Pages36 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSubjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious, Subjects & Themes / Nature, Subjects & Themes / Places

Publication Year2021

IllustratorGreening, Rosie, Yes

GenrePoetry

AuthorJohn Greening

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight2.4 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.8 in

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SynopsisAn unnamed traveller is distracted from his business trip by a sign 'To the Giddings'. He sets off walking through the Huntingdonshire landscape, with its Civil War associations and modern military bases, past wind turbines and fragments of ancient woodland, the trees providing a commentary in a variety of verse forms - lyrical, sardonic, admonitory. But it turns out that he is also walking through time and, after a powerful encounter with Nicholas Ferrar in 17th-century Little Gidding, towards a mysterious metamorphosis. In the tradition of The Pilgrim's Progress, and owing something to Ted Hughes's Gaudete, this ingenious and musical interweaving of verse and prose continues John Greening's earlier series of long 'dream poems'. Composed before the pandemic, The Giddings still tells a highly relevant story about a search for spiritual meaning and the power of nature in dark times., A businessman distracted by a road sign goes walking in Huntingdonshire - military bases, wind turbines and ancient woodland. Trees talk to him in verse. He travels in time to a transformatory encounter with Nicholas Ferrar in Little Gidding.