Title: Dark Corners of the Land
Author: Adelle Stripe
Publication: Poetry Chapbook
Details: Ltd edition 100 copies, letterpress, recycled stock
ISBN: 978-1-906099-29-9
Release Date: October 17th 2012
Retail Price: Sold Out
Title: Dark Corners of the Land
Author: Adelle Stripe
Publication: Hardback Edition
Details: Ltd edition 50 copies, cloth covered with signed Brooke Bond Tea card, limited number with letterpressed card spine strip.
ISBN: 978-1-906099-29-9
Release Date: May 19th 2013
Retail Price: £15Dark Corners of the Land is Adelle Stripe’s third collection on Blackheath Books. These visceral confessional poems explore rural life, strange deaths, hunting, farming and hedonism, set against the backdrop of the small North Yorkshire town where she grew up.
Influenced by Robinson Jeffers, D.H. Lawrence and Ted Hughes, the poems are a raw and emotional response to subjects including myxomatosis, the Battle of Towton, bull castration, lambing, the badger cull, animal traps, poachers, fishing, underage drinking, acid house, and hunting with dogs.
The handmade chapbook features a stencilled barb
wire spray-painted cover; the first 50 copies, have a vintage Brooke Bond Tea
Card ‘Wild Birds of Britain’ edition by C.F. Tunnicliffe each one is signed by
the author. London artist Lisa Cradduck has created an exclusive print which
also features in the book.
The handmade cloth bound hardback edition also features a stencilled barb wire spray-painted cover; the 50 copies, have a vintage Brooke Bond Tea Card ‘Freshwater Fish’ edition by E. V. Petts each one is signed by the author. This edition also features Lisa Cradduck's Lumb Falls print.
About the author
Adelle Stripe was born in 1976 and lives in Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire. She is a Creative Writing MA graduate from Manchester University’s Centre for New Writing and is a founding member of the Brutalist Poets. Her work has been widely published in underground publications in Britain and America. She has published three solo collections since 2008.
Her second collection
Cigarettes in Bed won ‘Poetry Book of the Year’ at the 3:AM Magazine Awards 2009.
Press Quotes
"Brave new writing, touched with tenderness and raw emotional depth"
The Guardian
"One of the finest young femme writers I’ve read in England – or America –she writes with wit, spunk, savvy, and a wise, world-aware brilliance that promises great literary endurance." – Joan Jobe Smith, poet & founding editor of
Pearl Magazine
"Adelle Stripe is a great poet. I can’t wait for a publisher to stick out their neck and publish this rising star."
Lee Rourke, author of The Canal
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