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Orlam / PJ Harvey.
Van Pelt Library PR6108.A78745 O75 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harvey, Polly Jean, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Dialects--Poetry.
- English language.
- Children--Poetry.
- Children.
- Imaginary places--Poetry.
- Imaginary places.
- Farms--Poetry.
- Farms.
- Forests and forestry--Poetry.
- Forests and forestry.
- Villages--Poetry.
- Villages.
- Dorset (England)--Poetry.
- Dorset (England).
- English language--Dialects.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 301 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Picador, 2022.
- Language Note:
- Dorset dialect poems with English translations on facing page.
- Summary:
- "Nine-year-old Ira-Abel Rawles lives on Hook Farm in the village of UNDERWHELEM. Next to the farm is Gore Woods, Ira's sanctuary, overseen by Orlam, the all-seeing lamb's eyeball who is Ira-Abel's guardian and protector. Here, drawing on the rituals, children's songs, chants and superstitions of the rural West Country of England, Ira-Abel creates the twin realm through which she can make sense of an increasingly confusing and frightening world. Orlam follows Ira and the inhabitants of UNDERWHELEM month by month through the last year of her childhood innocence. The result is a poem-sequence of light and shadow - suffused with hints of violence, sexual confusion and perversion, the oppression of family, but also ecstatic moments in sunlit clearings, song and bawdy humour. The broad theme is ultimately one of love - carried by Ira's personal Christ, the constantly bleeding soldier-ghost Wyman-Elvis, who bears 'The Word': Love Me Tender. Orlam is not only a remarkable coming-of-age tale, but the first full-length book written in the Dorset dialect for many decades. Orlam also reveals P J Harvey as not only one of the most talented songwriters of the age, but a gifted poet - whose formal skill, transforming eye and ear for the lyric line has produced a strange and moving poem like no other"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Prayer at the Gate
- January: Orlam Tells the Whole Story
- Birth of Ira-Abel
- Naming: Ira
- Naming: Abel
- Happy Families
- Under Whelem
- Twiddicks: Woone
- February Twiddicks: Two
- TheWordlels
- Mercy on Mallory
- Gore Woods
- Stations of Ira-Abel
- Little Bi-sheep
- Black Saturday
- Cutting with Kane
- Things I Found in Gore Woods: February 12th
- Things I Found in Gore Woods: February 13th
- Things I Found in Gore Woods: February 14th
- March Twiddicks: Dree
- Sonny to the Dark Wordle
- Childhood
- A Vorehearing
- Wyman-Elvis
- John Forsey
- A Badder Charm
- Maggoty
- The Bowditches of Dogwell
- Orlam Tells His Story
- April: Things I Found in Gore Woods: April 1st
- We wet
- Nammet
- The Wall-Eyed, Blue Merle Border
- Twiddicks: Vower
- Lwonesome Tonight
- Emery Bowditch
- Myra Bowditch
- Emerson-Dogger Bowditch
- May Twiddicks: Vive
- In the Woods
- Questions for The Red Post Sooneres
- Scratching on the May Tree
- Seem an I
- The Eye of The Lamb
- Bumping in The Red Shed
- Ira on the Nether-edge
- June Grouse Pen
- Midsummer's Eve
- Elda-Mary Rawles
- Lola in My Night Chammer
- Kane-Jude Rawles
- Twiddicks: Zix
- My Favourite Things
- July: Twiddicks: Zebm
- Washed in the Blood
- A Child's Question
- Ash
- Reaping
- Hanging Out with Chalmers
- The House of Hooks
- The House of Traps
- August A Child's Question
- A Noiseless Noise
- Things I Found in Gore Woods: August 10th
- Aaron-Unwin White
- The Natural
- Sheep
- August
- Twiddicks: A'ight
- September Twiddicks: Nine
- A Place Through Which Everything Passes
- Things I Found in Gore Woods: September 5th
- Autumn Term
- In Twain
- Things I Found in Gore Woods: Michaelmas Day
- October: Things I Found in Gore Woods: October 1st
- Wurse
- Forsey Vess'y
- Slommocky Vess'y
- Slommock-Want Forsey
- Twiddicks: Ten
- Randy in Ecstasy
- Drunk as a Lord's Prayer
- The Golden Fleece
- November Twiddicks: Elebm
- All Souls
- Bonfire Night
- Things I Found in Gore Woods: November 5th
- Chalmers-Adam Rawles
- Things I Found in Gore Woods: November 26th
- I Inside the Old Year Dying
- December Things I Found in Gore Woods: December 1st
- Mallory-Sonny
- Lola-Effie Colby
- The Woolly Messengers of The Word
- Twiddicks: Twelve
- I Inside the Old I Dying
- Things I Found in Gore Woods: December 31st
- January Prayer at the Gate.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1529063116
- 9781529063110
- 9781529094435
- 1529094437
- OCLC:
- 1280275728
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