“Eric Parker’s Surrey Naturalist (1952) is the source, chapter by chapter, of the poetry in this new collection: ‘It occurred to me that this was a promising resource for found poetry. I thought that using those same words, detached from their original context, would allow me to build new meanings from locally-sourced Surrey materials. This would be a way of by-passing the selectiveness of my memories, the bias of my experiences, the taint of hindsight.’”
Inspired by the literary and artistic history of the Surrey landscape, Bevis turns to a book on this topic as a source for 14 found poems.
Soft cover, 23,5 x 14,5 cm, 62 pages, Axminster 2025
ISBN 987-1-910010-38-9
