The Stone Age

Jen Hadfield author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pan Macmillan

Published:18th Mar '21

£10.99

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The Stone Age cover

A lyrical and dramatic collection of poems centered around Shetland from the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize.

Winner of the 2021 Highland Book Prize

Jen Hadfield’s new collection is an astonished beholding of the wild landscape of her Shetland home, a tale of hard-won speech, and the balm of the silence it rides upon. The Stone Age builds steadily to a powerful and visionary panpsychism: in Hadfield’s telling, everything – gate and wall, flower and rain, shore and sea, the standing stones whose presences charge the land – has a living consciousness, one which can be engaged with as a personal encounter.

The Stone Age is a timely reminder that our neurodiversity is a gift: we do not all see the world the world in the same way, and Hadfield’s lyric line and unashamedly high-stakes wordplay provide nothing less than a portal into a different kind of being. The Stone Age is the work of a singular artist at the height of her powers – one which dramatically extends and enriches the range of our shared experience.

ISBN: 9781529037340

Dimensions: 197mm x 152mm x 9mm

Weight: 132g

80 pages