Deborah Harvey
Learning Finity
How much of the past, its people and memories, stay imprinted on the landscape? Are the trees lining the nave of a bombed-out church busy rebuilding it? And does the valerian that thrusts through cracks in walls on streets climbing from the city centre remember when the hillside was woodland called Fockynggrove, rising beyond the city walls and a very well frequented spot indeed? Yes, everything is mutable, but stories persist.
THE AUTHOR
Deborah Harvey’s poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies, broadcast on Radio 4’s Poetry Please, and awarded several prizes. Learning Finity is her fifth collection of poetry; her previous four collections are also published by Indigo Dreams, while her historical novel, Dart, appeared under their Tamar Books imprint.
ISBN 978-1-912876-62-4
Paperback
72 pages
£10 + P&P
‘Deborah Harvey’s … poems are raw and true. She is the real thing.’
Hugo Williams
As a child, Deborah Harvey was fascinated by the rollsign of the 98 bus that gave its destination as The Shadow Factory, but as her stop came before the terminus, she never reached it, and an intimation of disappointment prevented her from asking what was made there. As a result, The Shadow Factory became a warehouse of wishes and unrealised dreams, a metaphor for life and death, and eventually this collection of poems that explore childhood, memory and the twilight of those household gods we call parents.
