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Much with Body
Much with Body | Polly Atkin
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In Much With Body, Polly Atkin displays her gifts as a vibrant and provocative contemporary nature poet. The dramatic landscapes of the Lake District and the diaries of Dorothy Wordsworth give rise to these poems. A life-long negotiation with a set of chronic health conditions brings urgency to her warning we can't expect nature to save us.
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A collection by Lakes poet, Polly Atkin (pic), which draws on the landscape of fells & water, on the diaries of Dorothy Wordsworth, on the author's chronic illnesses & (as background, not foreground), the COVID pandemic, during which the poems were written. I really enjoyed them, and she's won awards and was a writer in residence at Gladstone's Library, if other recommendation is needed 🙂
The cover is by painter and wild swimmer Nancy Farmer 👇

Bookwomble ... (not the children's fantasy author), which put me in mind of the cover for Undercurrent, a 1962 album by Bill Evans and Jim Lee, by photographer Toni Frissell. I loved Farmer's paintings of swimmers on her active website:
🏊🏻‍♀️ https://waterdrawn.com/
and her paintings of fairies, devils and untoward shenanigans on her archive site:
🧚🏻‍♀️ http://nancyfarmer.net/
A good read in and of itself, and I liked the side paths it took me down.
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Much with Body | Polly Atkin
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"Everyone everywhere is talking about the moon."
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