Edgelands Book

The wilderness is much closer than you think. Passed through negotiated unnamed unacknowledged: the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither city nor countryside - have become the great wild places on our doorsteps. In the same way the Romantic writers taught us to look at hills lakes and rivers poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts write about mobile masts and gravel pits business parks and landfill sites taking the reader on a journey to marvel at these richly mysterious forgotten regions in our midst. "Edgelands" forms a critique of what we value as 'wild' and allows our allotments railways motorways wasteland and water a presence in the world and a strange beauty all of their own.

Passed through, negotiated, unacknowledged: the edgelands - those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither city nor countryside - have become the great wild places on our doorsteps. This title describes mobile masts and gravel pits, business par