Spiritual Poems of the Soul
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In 2020 R. M. Francis became Poet in Residence for the Black Country Geological Society. This book is a record of his deep time explorations of the region and his unearthing of an everyday sublime and terrestrial animism. This collection of poems, fieldnotes and essays tracks the layers of place with geological method, language and observation.
R. M. Francis is a lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at the University of Wolverhampton. He's the author of two novels, Bella and The Wrenna, published with Wild Pressed Books, and a poetry collection, Subsidence, with Smokestack Books. In 2019 he was the inaugural David Bradshaw Writer in Residence at the University of Oxford and is currently Poet in Residence for The Black Country Geological Society. His academic research focuses on place-identity in the Black Country and has been published in a number of edited collections; he co-edited the book, Smell, Memory and Literature in the Black Country (Palgrave McMillan).
- ISBN-13
- 9781915533104
- Publisher
- Playdead Press
- Imprint
- Playdead Press
- Publication date
- 28 March 2023
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 90
- Dimensions
- 197 x 132 mm
- Language
- English
