
The wilderness is much closer than you think Passed through negotiated unnamed unacknowledged the edgelands
- those familiar yet ignored spaces which are neither city nor countryside
- have become the great wild places on our doorsteps In the same way the Romantic writers taught us to look at hills lakes & rivers poets Paul Farley & Michael Symmons Roberts write about mobile masts & gravel pits business parks & landfill sites taking the reader on a journey to marvel at these richly mysterious forgotten regions in our midst Edgelands forms a critique of what we value as 'wild' & allows our allotments railways motorways wasteland & water a presence in the world & a strange beauty all of their own