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Grimspound and Inhabiting Art

By (author) Rod Mengham
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd, Manchester, United Kingdom
Published: 29th Nov 2018
Dimensions: w 135mm h 216mm d 19mm
Weight: 500g
ISBN-10: 1784105902
ISBN-13: 9781784105907
Barcode No: 9781784105907
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Rod Mengham's new offering comprises two complementary halves: a poetic meditation on a place (the Bronze Age site of Grimspound on Dartmoor); and a series of short essays on different cultural habitats. Grimspound is a four-part work combining prose and verse, composed on site over the course of ten years. It combines a `wild analysis' of Hound of the Baskervilles (whose climactic scene takes place at Grimspound), a portrait of the Victorian excavator Sabine Baring-Gould, and a series of poems that draw on the Russian linguist Aharon Dolgopolsky's experimental Nostratic Dictionary. Inhabiting Art gathers essays on cultural history in relation to landscape and cityscape, viewed either episodically or in the form of a palimpsest, where the present state of the habitat both reveals and conceals its own history and prehistory.

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`Mengham's understanding of history as a living, evolving, ever present material template onto which experience can be inscribed and evaluated makes this collection of essays and his evocation of Grimspound so special.' - Antony Gormley