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- Herausgeber: Nine Arches Press
- Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
- Sprache: Englisch
Angela France's The Hill is a remarkable sequence of poems that leads us up the winding footpaths of Leckhampton Hill near Cheltenham. Under our feet are fossils and flora, bones and the relics of quarrying. France is masterful in capturing the sense of place and weaving the entrancing voices of the hill, its walkers and inhabitants, into the fabric of these formally adventurous poems that range from prose to 'anglish', richly worded and delighting in their shapes and sounds. Here, we encounter ghosts, foxes and ancient kings. We meet the protestors who, years before the Kinder Scout Trespassers, were standing up for their rambling rights and took the law into their own hands in 1902 when a landowner tried to enclose the hill they had walked for generations. And though history is never far from the surface, The Hill raises questions that are just as important today; who has the right to roam, whose land is it,
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The Hill
The Hill
Angela France
ISBN: 9781911027218
Copyright © Angela France, 2017
Cover and jacket illustrations: ‘The King’s Touch’ © Fumio Obata
www.fumioobata.co.uk
Map on page 6 by Caro McIntosh, University of Gloucestershire cartographer.
All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, recorded or mechanical, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Angela France has asserted her right under Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.
First published July 2017 by:
Nine Arches Press
PO Box 6269
Rugby
CV21 9NL
United Kingdom
www.ninearchespress.com
Printed in the United Kingdom by Imprint Digital
Nine Arches Press is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
For ‘The Leckhampton Stalwarts’and all those who fight for the land
Leckhampton Hill, 1902
Contents
Voices found on the hill
Landslip
Nadder speaks
Trails and Ways I
The King’s Touch
Dale bought the quarries…
Map Reading
Hauke sees
Calling the Witnesses
Remembrance
Sparrow says men from Bath Road…
Trails and Ways II
Aged Witness #3: Sparrow Hiscock
Brock says
Footfall
they called him king…
Fences
Aged Witness #5: Dorothea Trye
Trails and Ways III
Miss Beale sent a hundred girls…
Tuneless
Trails and Ways IV
Aged Witness #8: William Tilling
The Harp
it was submitted that to be a riot…
Echoes
Trails and Ways V
Shroud
Aged Witness #11: William Ballinger
Balancing Point
Fox
Trails and Ways VI
the king’s away…
Timeless
Aged Witness #7: Thomas Hawkes
Trails and Ways VII
The Wall
the king returned from jail…
Wort-cropper
Naming
Trails and Ways VIII
Wilding
Greed
Cold Comfort
First Footing
and Nadder says
Litany for a Hillside
Acknowledgements
About the Author & this book
“Don’t steal the goose from the common, or you will get jail, but steal the common from the goose, and you will be let off without a stain on your character”
– William Sparrow, 1902
Voices found on the hill
loads of mad quarry bits up by Devil’s Chimney
a fabulous limestone outcrop overlooking Cheltenham
easy dirt tracks technical climbs swooping singletrack
Yellowhammers Bullfinches Linnets Goldcrests
charged on remand with breaking destroying a fence
to the amount of 10/- property of the Quarries Company
purchased by Mr H.J. Dale
Common Rock Rose Wild Thyme Autumn Gentian Orchid
limestone clay spackled face paint the whoops coming back down
Foxes Shrews Hedgehogs Moles Bats and Badgers.
the cliffs in the quarry are choss top outs are bad
it was determined by a large body of men
that Cratchley’s cottage must be removed
exposure of the whole Lower Inferior Oolite formation
one outcrop area we further give you notice
warn you and your servants
Chiffchaffs Willow Warblers Grasshopper Warblers and Tree Pipits
a boxing competition between Charlton and Leckhampton men
head over to Seven Springs down that spooky valley
range through oncolites sandy limestones and oolites
Wood Mice Field Voles Grey Squirrels Rabbits and Roe and Muntjac
good paths to this promontory Iron Age hill fort
a Trig Surface Block music and dancing play my harp
on the hill on Good Friday
Slow Worms Common Lizards Adders Buzzard Sparrowhawk Kestrel
