Terminarchy

By Angela France

Angela France's Terminarchy eloquently considers the troubling terms of existence in an age of climate catastrophe and technological change. How do we negotiate a world where capitalism and greed threaten a fragile earth, where technology seems to promise us connection but might also fuel isolation? Where even finding solace in nature reminds us that the seasons can no longer be trusted?
Reframing ecopoetics in her own instinctive, radical, lyrical form. France considers whether, rather than collison-course, there might be a better way to coexist. Where extinction threatens, these wry, alert poems and their earthy voices try to find a way through and look for hope.
"Angela France travels the living world of our fellow creatures with much empathy, considering the survivals, (for now) and the irrevocable losses. Though the theme is mortal and full of danger, the poems sing, they inhabit delight amid the sorrow. Observational, meditative, earthy, riverine, full of foundational energy; this is a key collection, an essential poetics of gravity and grace." - Penelope Shuttle

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nine Arches Press
• Release date: Jul 14, 2021
• ISBN: 9781913437183

Angela France

Angela France has had poems published in many leading journals and anthologies. Publications include Occupation (Ragged Raven Press, 2009), Lessons in Mallemaroking (2011), Hide (2013) and The Hill (2017), all from Nine Arches press. The Hill has been developed into a touring live multi-media poetry show, funded by Arts Council England. Angela teaches creative writing at the University of Gloucestershire and in various community settings.

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Terminarchy

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Terminarchy

Angela France

ISBN: 978-1-913437-17-6

eISBN: 978-1-913437-18-3

Copyright © Angela France.

Cover artwork © Fumio Obata. www.fumioobata.co.uk

All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, recorded or mechanical, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Angela France has asserted her right under Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.

First published July 2021 by:

Nine Arches Press

Unit 14, Sir Frank Whittle Business Centre,

Great Central Way, Rugby.

CV21 3XH

United Kingdom

www.ninearchespress.com

Printed in the United Kingdom by: Imprint Digital

Nine Arches Press is supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

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Contents

Poetry Makes Nothing Happen

Threshold

Water Mark

What Remains

Early Spring

Stone-glow

After

We know the Wantwite

Small Gods

City Break

Growth

Sparrow Complains

On Balance

Scrolling

Wantwite gets clever

Junk

Landlocked

For a Glacier

Singing lessons

Departures

Suddenly, a frog

Rooting Out

Wantwite likes company

Desire Path

Strange Road

Blame

Second Wind

Fallow

Down Piggy Lane

Getting Late

Lightfall

Missing the Blood Moon

Wantwite needs slaves

How to be alone

Muscle Memory

Grave

Conversion

Wantwite is sickening

Nearly

Sparrow says

Wild Seed

Endlings

Living Yule

Notes and Acknowledgements

About the author and this book

Poetry Makes Nothing Happen

W.H. Auden

Let it make nothing happen more, this year,

                                                                     so that a young girl

whose mail arrives early can read the book she’s waited for

over breakfast and find a poem with blue depths and points

of light which she