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Blood,
Earth & Medicine
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In
Time of Flood
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Cider
- The Forgotten Miracle
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Bridgwater
- The Parrett's Mouth
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The
Wheal of Hope
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Working
Women of Somerset
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Waterways
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Living Landscapes
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Silence at Ramscliffe
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Dorset
Man
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Dorset
Women
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Open-Mouthed
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Dorset Coast
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Dorset Footsteps
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Lewesdon Hill
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We Have Heard Ravens
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Blood,
Earth & Medicine
a
year in the life of a
casual agricultural labourer
The Parrett Press 1991
ISBN 1-872723-02-0
£8.50
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This book was
fine printed by Nick Sloan at the Parrett Press with an old hot
lead Monotype caster and a 5 ½ ton Heidelberg printing press. A
live performance dramatised by Morna Watson of Theatre of
the Heart toured the Westcountry with over 50 performances.
It has also been translated into French by René Agostini of Avignon
University and published in Paris by L'Harmattan under the title
Art de Terre et Sang.
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"The sense of a committed
lived life behind the verse is very strong and appealing"
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Seamus
Heaney
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"A precious and impressive
invocation of that very ancient way of life"
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John
Fowles
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"the originality of James
Crowden and the force of his texts make me bitterly
regret that for the moment at least, this poet is unknown
to the French reader..."
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Claude
Roy
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"Ted Hughes territory seen
from the inside"
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Andrew
Langley - Daily Telegraph
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