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Edgelands: Journeys into England’s True Wilderness by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts (Vintage, £9.99)
GO to the edge of your town and what do you find? Landfill, canals, dumps, spoil tips, abandoned cars, all of them being colonised by flora and fauna. These are the edgelands, a term coined by the writer and campaigner Marion Shoard for the overlooked, the forgotten, the ignored parts of our urban landscape that, as a result, can provide an environment for nature.
There has been a real boom in writing about these marginal landscapes in the last 10 years. But poets Farley and Symmons Roberts wrote the definitive book on the subject in 2011. In its pages they explore woodlands, ruins, bridges, pallets and piers in an attempt, they say, “to break out of the duality of rural and urban writing, to explore these unobserved parts of our shared landscape as places of possibility, mystery, beauty.” ....

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