The Getting of Vellum (Salmon Poetry) [Paperback]

Catherine Byron (Author)

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Series: Salmon Poetry | Publication Date: October 5, 2001

The `Getting of Vellum' is inspired by Byron's creative collaboration with Dublin-based artist and calligrapher Denis Brown. The cross-fertilization of his inscribed and distressed vellum pieces in his series, The Word, and Byron's poems about the slaughtering of farm animals in her book, The Fat-Hen Field Hospital, has led to the creation of new work on both vellum and glass, as well as on the printed page.

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After Propertius 1.19
After The Nuptial Mass
Allowing The Animal
Amour Fou
The Blue Darkness
Booked In
By The Calf Bay At Lumb Bank
Coco De Mer
Coffin. Crypt. Consumption.
Egyptians
The Getting Of Vellum
The Hotel Hades
The Hunt By Night In The Bookshop
I Missed Your Resurrection
Minding You
Morbid Anatomy
My Father's Son
'the Natural Gates And Alleys Of The Body'
Possession
Renderers
St Patrick's Purgatory, January
St Thomas Aquinas In Macneice's House
Suffer...
That Winter, That Summer
Writing On Skin
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 60 pages
• Publisher: Salmon Poetry (October 5, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1903392098
• ISBN-13: 978-1903392096
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,312,358 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Getting of Vellum, August 6, 2008

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Catherine Byron's first collection of poetry Settlements (1985) was hailed as 'a classic of Irish exile'. The Getting of Vellum is inspired by her ongoing creative collaboration with Dublin-based artist and calligrapher Denis Brown. The cross-fertilisation of his inscribed and distressed vellum pieces in his series The Word and Byron's poems about the slaughtering of farm animals in The Fat-Hen Field Hospital (1993) has led to the creation of new work on both vellum and glass, as well as on the printed page.

Catherine Byron grew up in Belfast, raised daughters and goats in the west of Scotland, and now lives in the English Midlands. This is her sixth poetry collection. She is also the author of Out of Step: Pursuing Seamus Heaney to Purgatory (1992). She teaches writing and medieval Literature at The Nottingham Trent University.