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Lyonesse, EPUB eBook

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The submerged land of Lyonesse was once part of Cornwall, according to myth, standing for a lost paradise in Arthurian legend, but becomes an emblem of human frailty in the face of climate change in Penelope Shuttle's new poems.

There was indeed a Bronze Age inundation event which swept the entire west of Cornwall under the sea, with only the Isles of Scilly and St Michael's Mount left as remnants above sea-level.

Lyonesse was also Thomas Hardy's name for Cornwall where Penelope Shuttle has lived all her adult life, always fascinated by the stories and symbolic presence of Lyonesse.

In her preface she writes: 'Lyonesse is a place of paradox, both real and historical as well as an imaginary region for exploring depths.

It holds grief for many kinds of loss... The poems seek re-wilding of a city where human loss interconnects with mythic loss; myth is rooted in the real.' This book is two collections in one: the second part, New Lamps for Old, is a collection of poems she needed to write in coming up for air from the watery depths of Lyonesse, to find ways to begin again, to find meaning in life after losing her husband, the poet Peter Redgrove.

The 'old lamps' of a former life have been extinguished, leaving darkness.

Her challenge was to find 'new lamps' to illuminate and give meaning to life.

Lyonesse is a fluid magical world. The poems of New Lamps for Old are concerned with earth, air and fire.

Both collections share allegiance with the fifth element, the spirit.

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