{"product_id":"soil-9781908058157","title":"Soil","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A distinctive, important new voice\" - Jo Shapcott\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTim Cresswell's poems delight in language and geography, and the collision point of the natural and the urban. A fox climbs to the top of a London skyscraper; sandworts take root in abandoned mine shafts; and geological time is glimpsed through the 'crushed structures' of the city. Cresswell is interested in hinterlands, the in-between places: airport lounges, urban parks, the muddy verge of a river. The title sequence is a startling examination of man's relationship with the very stuff of earth, redeploying the language of science and archaeology with surgical precision and innovative flair. \u003cem\u003eSoil\u003c\/em\u003e introduces Tim Cresswell as a significant new poet of place, and our changing relationship to it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"If this poetry was a geological formation, it would be layered and folded, with scientific knowledge and a quick linguistic wit, with echoes of folk song, unsentimental ecological awareness, word games and a sharp but not unkind eye on the everyday - all this, but metamorphic too, fused by human warmth into a memorable voice.\"\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Gross \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTim Cresswell \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of four books on the role of space and mobility on cultural life. \u003cem\u003eSoil \u003c\/em\u003eis his first collection of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penned in the Margins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50493206429970,"sku":"9781908058157","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_00861bd9-f199-4088-b712-a7831e379ea7.jpg?v=1730636576","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/soil-9781908058157","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}