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 |
| Publication date: | 18th March 2021 |
| Author: | Jen Hadfield |
| Publisher: | Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 80 pages |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) Narrative theme: Sense of place |
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.
The Stone Age features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Narrative theme: Sense of place
The Stone Age is available in Paperback
The Stone Age was written by Jen Hadfield and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
The Stone Age has 80 pages
£11.69