In Between: Poems from the Snickets of York
In Between: Poems from the Snickets of York
John Wedgwood Clarke
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York’s secret history lies in its snickets, passageways, courts and yards – all of those in-between, out-of-the-way routes: walk them and you inhabit history.
In a specially-commissioned sequence of site-specific poems for York Curiouser, John Wedgwood Clarke explores the way people have shaped and been shaped by these transitional places. To read the poems is to haunt these hidden ways and to be haunted by them; to fill yourself with the breath and spirit of an extraordinary city.
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Imprint: Valley Press
Published: June 2014
ISBN: 9781908853417
Catalogue no: VP0061
Page count: 30
Trim size: 198 x 129 mm
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Praise for In Between: Poems from the Snickets of York:
“Totally successful – evokes specific places in the city without being too parochial. I envy his precise, economic style. His York is a place of light as much as a place built out of stone. The present is consubstantial with the past here. Oh yes – and I like the little details, the observation. It's just great.”
— Ian Stuart
About the author
John Wedgwood Clarke was born in St Ives, Cornwall in 1969. He trained as an actor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, before going on to study literature and completing a D.Phil. in Modernist poetry at the University of York. He set up the Beverley Literature and Bridlington Poetry Festivals, and ran them for ten years, before leaving to pursue a full-time career in writing and editing, as well as teaching Creative Writing at the University of Hull, and more recently at the University of Exeter.
His publications with Valley Press include the pamphlets Sea Swim (2012) and In Between (2014), as well as the full-length collections Ghost Pot (2013) and Landfill (2017).