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Waiting for H5N1
Jane Routh
Jane Routh
Most of this sequence was written during the period from the first
warnings about Avian Influenza to the outbreak of disease in intensive
rearing sheds in Norfolk eighteen months later. Paul Farley's recognition
of a 'haunted pastoral ..enlarged by its sense of proximity to the
here-and-now' in Jane Rouths's poetry is represented here by the brutal
incursion of Avian Influenza into the life of a flock of geese and the wild
birds nearby. Acknowledging how fear overtook her delight in birds, the
poet bears witness to the politicised nature of 'information' and how its
subversive, evasive twists and turns taint us with anything but the truth.
Jane Routh is a poet and photographer who manages woodlands and a
flock of geese in the Forest of Bowland, North Lancashire.
Her first collection Circumnavigation (Smith/Doorstop 2002) won the
Poetry Business Competition and was shortlisted for a Forward Prize.
Teach Yourself Mapmaking (Smith/Doorstop 2006) is an autumn 2006
Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
warnings about Avian Influenza to the outbreak of disease in intensive
rearing sheds in Norfolk eighteen months later. Paul Farley's recognition
of a 'haunted pastoral ..enlarged by its sense of proximity to the
here-and-now' in Jane Rouths's poetry is represented here by the brutal
incursion of Avian Influenza into the life of a flock of geese and the wild
birds nearby. Acknowledging how fear overtook her delight in birds, the
poet bears witness to the politicised nature of 'information' and how its
subversive, evasive twists and turns taint us with anything but the truth.
Jane Routh is a poet and photographer who manages woodlands and a
flock of geese in the Forest of Bowland, North Lancashire.
Her first collection Circumnavigation (Smith/Doorstop 2002) won the
Poetry Business Competition and was shortlisted for a Forward Prize.
Teach Yourself Mapmaking (Smith/Doorstop 2006) is an autumn 2006
Poetry Book Society Recommendation.
ISBN-13 978-1-906285-06-7
PUBLICATION OCTOBER 2007 - available for preorder
PB £4.00