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Orlam

by Pj Harvey
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781529063110
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Picador USA
  • Publisher Imprint: Picador USA
  • Publication Date: N/A
  • Pages: 272
  • Original Price: GBP 25.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 635 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Women Authors and European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

A beautiful and profound narrative poem set in a magic realist version of the West Country by musician and writer PJ Harvey.

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.

Orlam is not only a remarkable coming-of-age tale, but the first full-length book written in the Dorset dialect for many decades. Includes a facing-page English translation.

Orlam reveals PJ Harvey as not only one of the most talented songwriters of the age, but a gifted poet--whose formal skill and transforming eye and ear for the lyric line has produced a strange and moving poem like no other.

Harvey, Pj: - PJ Harvey is one of the most profound and important artists of her generation. She formed her eponymous band in 1991, and has earned commercial and critical acclaim ever since the release of her debut album Dry, including the Mercury Music Prize in 2001 for her album Stories From the City, Stories from the Sea and again in 2011 with Let England Shake- - the only artist to have ever achieved this honour. She has recorded with industry legend John Peel, worked on soundtracks for films such asBasquiat and the television series Six Feet Under, and has collaborated with an extraordinary range of musicians, including Thom Yorke, Nick Cave, and Bjork. PJ Harvey paints, draws, sculpts, and writes poetry. In December 2013 she was awarded an MBE for services to music.

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