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Abstract
After the battle of Brunanburh (AD937), when Æthelstan’s army defeated an invading alliance of Scots, Irish, Britons and Norse, the Viking mercenary Egil Skallagrimsson extemporised a panegyric for the English and their king. Englaland is a stunning re-imagining of Skallagrimsson’s song, an unapologetic and paradoxical affirmation of a bloody, bloody-minded and bloody brilliant people. Yorkshire miners, Danish huscarls, pit-village bird-nesters, aging prize-fighters, flying pickets, jihadi suicide-bombers and singing yellowhammers parade through the book in an incendiary combination, rising to the challenge of the skald’s affirmation: you are the people in the land; know you are the people; know it is your land.
Original language | English |
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Publisher | Smokestack Books |
ISBN (Print) | 9780992958145 |
Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2015 |
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Stephen Ely
- Department of Media, Humanities and the Arts - Reader
- School of Arts and Humanities
- Ted Hughes Network - Member
- Centre for International Contemporary Poetry - Member
Person: Academic
Activities
- 2 Invited talk
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Poetry Reading from my book 'Englaland'
Stephen Ely (Speaker)
15 Apr 2016Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk