The Stone Age

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A lyrical and dramatic collection of poems centered around Shetland from the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize.

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Winner of the 2021 Highland Book Prize

Jen Hadfield’s new collection is an astonished beholding of the wild landscape of her Shetland home, a tale of hard-won speech, and the balm of the silence it rides upon. The Stone Age builds steadily to a powerful and visionary panpsychism: in Hadfield’s telling, everything – gate and wall, flower and rain, shore and sea, the standing stones whose presences charge the land – has a living consciousness, one which can be engaged with as a personal encounter.

The Stone Age is a timely reminder that our neurodiversity is a gift: we do not all see the world the world in the same way, and Hadfield’s lyric line and unashamedly high-stakes wordplay provide nothing less than a portal into a different kind of being. The Stone Age is the work of a singular artist at the height of her powers – one which dramatically extends and enriches the range of our shared experience.

Additional information

Weight 132 g
Dimensions 19.7 × 15.2 × 0.9 cm
Author

Publisher

Picador

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

80

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K