Picador. Format: HardbackISBN: 9781529063110Publish/Release date: April 28, 2022Publisher: Pan MacmillanNumber of pages: 320Width (mm): 159Height (mm): 203Depth (mm): 32 Orlam reveals PJ Harvey as not only one of the most talented songwriters of the age, but a gifted poet—whose formal skill and transforming eye and ear for the lyric line has produced a strange and moving poem like no other. Here, drawing on the rituals, children’s songs, chants and superstitions of the rural West Country of England, Ira-Abel creates the twin realm through which she can make sense of an increasingly confusing and frightening world. Orlam is not only a remarkable coming-of-age tale, but the first full-length book written in the Dorset dialect for many decades. Next to the farm is Gore Woods, Ira’s sanctuary, overseen by Orlam, the all-seeing lamb’s eyeball who is Ira-Abel’s guardian and protector. A beautiful and profound narrative poem set in a magic realist version of the West Country by musician and writer PJ Harvey.
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Si. C.
I haven't finished properly reading Orlam yet, still stuck on 'Washed in the blood', I will endevour to carry on, and may write a better review here later. - Si
But I did find that reading it out aloud to myself with a Dorset accent really made it far more alive and entertaining for myself and my friends when performed in this way. So if you can manage a Dorset accent, then you can handle this book. I think Polly owns her own woodland, nearby to where she lives. And she probably calls it Gore woods, where she enjoys setting traps for rabbits.
Not just to yourself in your head. Poetry must be read out aloud to appreciate it fully.
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