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Beschreibung
'An absolute gem ... I was delightfully lost by the river throughout' - Paul Whitehouse

'Marvellous.The Catch leaves both its writer and its reader wonderfully "lost in water"' - Robert Macfarlane

'Penetrating and poetic, filled with honeyed prose and thoughtful criticism' - The Times
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It is in the midst of a swirling river, casting a line, that Mark Wormald meets Ted Hughes.

He stands where the poet stood, forty years ago, because fishing was Ted Hughes's way of breathing - and because the poet's writing has made Mark understand that it has always been his way of breathing, too.

Using Hughes's poetry collection River and his fishing diaries as a guide, Mark returns again and again to the rivers and lakes in Britain and Ireland where the poet fished. At times, he uses Ted's fly patterns; at others his rods. It is an obsession; a fundamental connection to nature; a thrilling wildness; an elemental pursuit. But it is also a release and a consolation, as Mark fishes after the sudden death of his mother and during the slow fading of his father.

A brilliant blend of memoir and biography, The Catch is a stunning meditation on poetry and nature, and a quiet reflection on what it means to be a father and a son.
'An absolute gem ... I was delightfully lost by the river throughout' - Paul Whitehouse

'Marvellous.The Catch leaves both its writer and its reader wonderfully "lost in water"' - Robert Macfarlane

'Penetrating and poetic, filled with honeyed prose and thoughtful criticism' - The Times
_______________

It is in the midst of a swirling river, casting a line, that Mark Wormald meets Ted Hughes.

He stands where the poet stood, forty years ago, because fishing was Ted Hughes's way of breathing - and because the poet's writing has made Mark understand that it has always been his way of breathing, too.

Using Hughes's poetry collection River and his fishing diaries as a guide, Mark returns again and again to the rivers and lakes in Britain and Ireland where the poet fished. At times, he uses Ted's fly patterns; at others his rods. It is an obsession; a fundamental connection to nature; a thrilling wildness; an elemental pursuit. But it is also a release and a consolation, as Mark fishes after the sudden death of his mother and during the slow fading of his father.

A brilliant blend of memoir and biography, The Catch is a stunning meditation on poetry and nature, and a quiet reflection on what it means to be a father and a son.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781526644213
ISBN-10: 1526644215
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Wormald, Mark
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Von/Mit: Mark Wormald
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.05.2023
Artikel-ID: 124656625