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4993335Rhizodonthttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/rhizodont-9781780377148/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4544286/image.jpg?v=638743796527230000252327MXNBloodaxe BooksInStock/Ebooks/<p><em><strong>Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024</strong></em></p><p><strong>Against a backdrop of vast geological time and recent fossil-fuel burning history, the poems of Katrina Porteouss latest collection address current issues of social and environmental change.</strong></p><p>350 million years ago what is now the rocky shore close to Katrina Porteouss Northumberland home was a tropical swamp inhabited by three-metre long predatory fish with huge tusk-like teeth. Able to move on land as well as swim, such lobe-finned fishes are the ancestors of all four-limbed vertebrates, including humans. This fossil fish is called the rhizodont. Porteouss new collection begins with a lovingly-observed contemporary journey through these ancient Carboniferous landscapes, from the former coal-mining communities of the Durham coast to the Northumberland shores where the rhizodonts remains were found.</p><p><em>Rhizodont</em> extends territory explored in Porteouss three previous books. Combining scientific themes from <em>Edge</em> with the ecological localism of <em>Two Countries</em> and <em>The Lost Music</em>, these poems unfold from Englands North-East coast into global questions of evolution, survival and extinction in communities and languages, and throughout the natural world, where hope resides in lifes astonishing powers of reinvention.</p>...4728827Rhizodont252327https://www.gandhi.com.mx/rhizodont-9781780377148/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/4544286/image.jpg?v=638743796527230000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20249781780377148_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_<p><strong>Against a backdrop of vast geological time and recent fossil-fuel burning history, the poems of Katrina Porteouss latest collection address current issues of social and environmental change.</strong></p><p>350 million years ago what is now the rocky shore close to Katrina Porteouss Northumberland home was a tropical swamp inhabited by three-metre long predatory fish with huge tusk-like teeth. Able to move on land as well as swim, such lobe-finned fishes are the ancestors of all four-limbed vertebrates, including humans. This fossil fish is called the rhizodont. Porteouss new collection begins with a lovingly-observed contemporary journey through these ancient Carboniferous landscapes, from the former coal-mining communities of the Durham coast to the Northumberland shores where the rhizodonts remains were found.</p><p><em>Rhizodont</em> extends territory explored in Porteouss three previous books. Combining scientific themes from <em>Edge</em> with the ecological localism of <em>Two Countries</em> and <em>The Lost Music</em>, these poems unfold from Englands North-East coast into global questions of evolution, survival and extinction in communities and languages, and throughout the natural world, where hope resides in lifes astonishing powers of reinvention.</p>...(*_*)9781780377148_<p><em><strong>Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024</strong></em></p><p><strong>Against a backdrop of vast geological time and recent fossil-fuel burning history, the poems of Katrina Porteouss latest collection address current issues of social and environmental change.</strong></p><p>350 million years ago what is now the rocky shore close to Katrina Porteouss Northumberland home was a tropical swamp inhabited by three-metre long predatory fish with huge tusk-like teeth. Able to move on land as well as swim, such lobe-finned fishes are the ancestors of all four-limbed vertebrates, including humans. This fossil fish is called the rhizodont. Porteouss new collection begins with a lovingly-observed contemporary journey through these ancient Carboniferous landscapes, from the former coal-mining communities of the Durham coast to the Northumberland shores where the rhizodonts remains were found.</p><p><em>Rhizodont</em> extends territory explored in Porteouss three previous books. Combining scientific themes from <em>Edge</em> with the ecological localism of <em>Two Countries</em> and <em>The Lost Music</em>, these poems unfold from Englands North-East coast into global questions of evolution, survival and extinction in communities and languages, and throughout the natural world, where hope resides in lifes astonishing powers of reinvention.</p>...9781780377148_Bloodaxe Bookslibro_electonico_9781780377148_9781780377148Katrina PorteousInglésMéxico2024-06-27T00:00:00+00:00https://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/ingram50-epub-f87a9cc7-af1e-4326-91f6-4a96c7af9982.epub2024-06-27T00:00:00+00:00Bloodaxe Books