Lynne WycherleyJohn Lucas
Lynne Wycherley: At the Edge of Light
Lynne Wycherley
At the Edge of Light
Shoestring Press, 2003
19 Devonshire Avenue, Beeston, Nottingham NG9 1BS
ISBN 1 899549 89 7
£7.95
Lynne Wycherley
When I reflect on my life, I think first of the fenland soil by my birthplace. My parents were practical people – more concerned with doing than shaping words, and from my father I learned to listen to the land, to snipe drumming, to fish rising. Today, when I write, I begin from a place of silence. Rarely, words arrive in spate; more often, they are like wigeon, sporadic, straggling. My outer life has been ordinary enough: a degree in English and Humanities, then many low-paid years working in archaeology, nature conservation, second-hand books; I now work in Merton College, where history is almost as tangible as fire. My inner life has run another river: love, and loss, persistent – at times mystical – searching, and a creativity that has been slow to arrive. Except for some rough lines made
when 20 – lost (along with my confidence) when my belongings were stolen in Cambridge – I did not write until my mid-30s (1995/6) when bereavement catalysed my words. I have loved poetry since my teens, beginning with Emily Bronte, and later, a poet both local and dear to me, John Clare.
John Lucas, Editor of Shoestring Press
Shoestring specializes in sequences as well as collections, often by
established but unfashionable poets, or by poets introduced to British readers for the first time. As well as publishing works by UK poets, Shoestring has a selection of poetry and fiction works by Greek and Australian authors.
At the Edge of Light
Shoestring Press, 2003
19 Devonshire Avenue, Beeston, Nottingham NG9 1BS
ISBN 1 899549 89 7
£7.95
Lynne Wycherley
When I reflect on my life, I think first of the fenland soil by my birthplace. My parents were practical people – more concerned with doing than shaping words, and from my father I learned to listen to the land, to snipe drumming, to fish rising. Today, when I write, I begin from a place of silence. Rarely, words arrive in spate; more often, they are like wigeon, sporadic, straggling. My outer life has been ordinary enough: a degree in English and Humanities, then many low-paid years working in archaeology, nature conservation, second-hand books; I now work in Merton College, where history is almost as tangible as fire. My inner life has run another river: love, and loss, persistent – at times mystical – searching, and a creativity that has been slow to arrive. Except for some rough lines made
when 20 – lost (along with my confidence) when my belongings were stolen in Cambridge – I did not write until my mid-30s (1995/6) when bereavement catalysed my words. I have loved poetry since my teens, beginning with Emily Bronte, and later, a poet both local and dear to me, John Clare.
John Lucas, Editor of Shoestring Press
Shoestring specializes in sequences as well as collections, often by
established but unfashionable poets, or by poets introduced to British readers for the first time. As well as publishing works by UK poets, Shoestring has a selection of poetry and fiction works by Greek and Australian authors.
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