A Twitch Upon the Thread

Writers on Fishing

Jon Day

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English

Notting Hill Editions
28 May 2019

Prose: non-fiction; Field sports: fishing, hunting, shooting

A poignant and surprising collection of essays on fishing, in which the sport becomes a way to meditate on love, grief, faith, and obsession, with contributions spanning medieval times to the present.

The best fishing writing is never really about fishing, or never only about fishing, and the writers collected in A Twitch Upon the Thread use angling as a way to write about love, loss, faith, and obsession. This is an anthology of fishing writing ranging from medieval times to the present, taking the reader from riverbank to open ocean, from England to New Zealand, from the shore to the depths. Read it and be hooked. Included are contributions from Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Ota Pavel, Arthur Ransome, George Orwell, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Elizabeth Bishop, and dozens more.

Introduction by: Jon Day
Imprint: Notting Hill Editions
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 120mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 250g
ISBN: 9781912559138
ISBN 10: 1912559137
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 28 May 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Jon Dayis a writer, critic, cyclist, and fisherman. He teaches English at King's College London, and has written essays and reviews for theLondon Review of Books,theTimes Literary Supplementand many others. He is a regular book critic for theGuardianand theFinancial Times, and writes about art forApollo. His first book,Cyclogeography, was published by Notting Hill Editions in 2015.Homingwas published by John Murray in 2019. He was a 2018 Man Booker Prize for Fiction judge.

Reviews for A Twitch Upon the Thread: Writers on Fishing

"""This pocket-sized book is perfect for taking with you to read on the riverbank. Jon Day has compiled some of the best fishing writing from the medieval to the present day, and it is presented in a beautiful, cloth-covered volume, enhanced by elegant typesetting."" —Alexandra Henton, The Field Magazine ""[A] lovely little anthology of writing on the idle pleasure of fishing."" —The Idler"