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Andrew Forster's second collection explores what it means to make a home in a particular place, and the relationship with the environment that this implies. Much of the collection is set in the remote former mining village of Leadhills in south-west Scotland, where these questions are encountered daily. The poems delve into the landscape, history and natural history of Leadhills, its surrounding area and beyond, looking at the uneasy balance of our relationship with nature. "His descriptions of country life through the seasons offer an evocative perspective on living amidst the forces of nature, which can both inspire and oppress in equal measure." Poetry Book Society "... the reader is spoilt for choice. At line and phrase level the book is replete with vivid, clean and memorable language which lifts free from the page and sticks in the mind... Territory is an extremely good book." James Roderick Burns, Other Poetry "Write about animals and nature - particularly if they are red in tooth and claw - and you quickly find that Ted Hughes casts a rather long shadow. But Andrew Forster is confident enough in this, his second collection of poems, to take on the rich legacy of Hughes from The Hawk in the Rain, Lupercal and Moortown and write about the lives, landscape, history and natural history of Leadhills, an old mining village in Lanarkshire." Keith Richmond, Tribune "Forster is very good at detail and his use of language is accurate and understated." Jonathan Davidson, The North Andrew Forster was born in South Yorkshire but lived in Scotland for over twenty years before moving to Cumbria in 2008. He was Literature Development Officer for Dumfries and Galloway for five years before becoming Literature Officer for the Wordsworth Trust in 2008. Dress Rehearsals, a pamphlet, was published by Flarestack in 2000, while his first collection Fear of Thunder was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2008.
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