Blood, Earth & Medicine
In Time of Flood
Cider - The Forgotten Miracle
Bridgwater - The Parrett's Mouth
The Wheal of Hope
Working Women of Somerset
Waterways
- Living Landscapes
Silence at Ramscliffe
Dorset Man
Dorset Women
Open-Mouthed
Dorset Coast
Dorset Footsteps
Lewesdon Hill
We Have Heard Ravens
 
Blood, Earth & Medicine

a year in the life of a
casual agricultural labourer


Blood, Earth & Medicine

The Parrett Press 1991
ISBN 1-872723-02-0
£8.50


 
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.


"The sense of a committed lived life behind the verse is very strong and appealing"

Seamus Heaney
 

"A precious and impressive invocation of that very ancient way of life"

John Fowles

"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..."

Claude Roy

"Ted Hughes territory seen from the inside"

Andrew Langley - Daily Telegraph
        
link to Poetry extracts