Daunt Books

Contemporary poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts set off to explore the real wilderness of the 21st century English landscape taking in debris-ridden canals, motorways, car lots, disused factories and abandoned mines. These edgelands are now a well-established subject for literary foray and this book follows in the footsteps of iconic revisionist nature writing such as Richard Mabey’s The Unofficial Countryside (1973). Farley and Symmons Roberts, two English poets in the lyric tradition, are part of this new romantic movement, as they discover the sublime within ruin and hope to do for the neglected edgelands what Coleridge and Wordsworth once did for mountains and lakes.

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