{"product_id":"lode-paperback-1","title":"Lode - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGillian Allnutt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDenise Levertov described Gillian Allnutt's poems as 'at once hard and delicate, like wrought iron'. \u003c\/b\u003eThey are both serious and light in touch, deeply humane and spiritually profound, showing the spirit surviving amongst the tatters of Christianity in a modern wilderness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cem\u003elode\u003c\/em\u003e in Gillian Allnutt's title picks up on two of the many meanings of the word. A lode can be a course, a way, a journey; also a road, a lane. Her collection traces a journey through time, the time of her own life and of our lives, since the Second World War. Lode also means guidance, here the guidance afforded by the continuity and relative stability - economic, cultural, spiritual - of Britain's postwar years, the setting of the first part of the book. That sense of stability ended with the Covid pandemic, which Gillian Allnutt lived through in the former coal-mining village of Esh Winning in Co. Durham, England, her home for the past 30 years, the landscape of much of the middle section of the book. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in the book's third part, \u003cem\u003eEarth-hoard\u003c\/em\u003e, are raids on the new Unknowable, drawing on the habitual resources of the old known world, informed by spiritual traditions, especially Christianity; by English literature; and by the old habit of writing about a natural world now threatened as never before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGillian Allnutt\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in London but spent half her childhood in Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1988 she returned to live in the North East. Before that, she read Philosophy and English at Cambridge, and then spent the next 17 years living mostly in London. From 1983 to 1988 she was poetry editor of \u003cem\u003eCity Limits\u003c\/em\u003e magazine. Her collections \u003cem\u003eNantucket and the Angel\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLintel\u003c\/em\u003e were both shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Poems from these collections are included in her Bloodaxe retrospective \u003cem\u003eHow the Bicycle Shone: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e (2007), which draws on six published books plus a new collection, \u003cem\u003eWolf Light\u003c\/em\u003e, and was a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Her most recent collections, both from Bloodaxe, are \u003cem\u003eindwelling \u003c\/em\u003e(2013) and \u003cem\u003ewake\u003c\/em\u003e (2018), to be followed by \u003cem\u003elode\u003c\/em\u003e (2025). She has also published \u003cem\u003eBerthing: A Poetry Workbook\u003c\/em\u003e (NEC\/Virago, 1991), and was co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThe New British Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e (Paladin, 1988). From 2001 to 2003 she held a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at Newcastle and Leeds Universities. She won the Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award in 2005 and received a Cholmondeley Award in 2010. Since 1983 she has taught creative writing in a variety of contexts, mainly in adult education and as a writer in schools. In 2009\/10 she held a writing residency with The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture (now Freedom From Torture) in the North East, working with asylum seekers in Newcastle and Stockton. In 2013\/14 she taught creative writing to undergraduates on the Poetry and Poetics course in the English Department of Durham University. She lives in County Durham. Gillian Allnutt was awarded The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2016. The Medal is awarded for excellence in poetry, and was presented to Gillian Allnutt by HM Queen Elizabeth in February 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.2 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 22, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353858588921,"sku":"9781780377452","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/nCbS1ioAns9781780377452_bb052a4f-1efe-4651-9e70-8196155844d3.webp?v=1769828680","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/lode-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}