Review : ‘The Sleep Road’, by Stewart Sanderson

My review of this wonderful poetry collection by Stewart Sanderson, posted on the North Sea Poets substack today. The collection was published by Talsalteerie in 2021.

‘I am the first to admit I am a bit slow off the mark at times.  But I don’t know how I missed this book first time round …

                Stewart Sanderson’s first full collection is set in the half-explored, half-defined borderlands around our history and our language, and he uses the tools and techniques of poetry meticulously to conjure them.  These poems are full of the matter of landscape – rock, turf, water – but equally tangible here is the matter of language itself.’

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Lesley Harrison lives and works on the Angus coast. In her writing, she explores how it is to live at the southern, temperate edge of a much colder northern world. She has held writing residencies in Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard. Drawing from archives, folk myth and cultural memory as well as her own explorations and experience, her poetry and prose make real our negotiation with, and our constant striving to give meaning and scale to, this unstable and ultimately unknowable space. She is a member of the North Sea Poets collective - northseapoets.com.

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