On the Saltmarsh - Softcover

Valentine, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0957172214 ISBN 13: 9780957172210

Verlag: Smokestack Books, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

On the Saltmarsh is a book about language and silence. There is the historical silence that refuses to say where the bodies lie in Chile, Kosovo and Baghdad. There is the language of old photographs, bloody handprints and broken headstones. There are the suppressed memories of the survivors, the redrawn borders of the victors and the unmarked graves of the defeated. It is a book about migration and exile, contemporary history and everyday losses, a lost map of shifting sands, rising tides and the swollen silences of the Saltmarsh.

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Ruth Valentine is a poet and activist for refugee and migrant rights. Her poetry collections include The Tide Table (1998), The Announced (2009), On the Saltmarsh (2012), Downpour (2016) and Rubaiyat for the Martyrs of Two Wars (2017). She has also published a history of Horton Hospital, Asylum, Hospital, Haven (1996) and a novel, The Jeweller’s Skin (2013). She lives in Tottenham, London.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Smokestack Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0957172214
• ISBN 13: 9780957172210
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 70
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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