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Under the Rock

The Poetry of a Place

Benjamin Myers

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ELLIOT & CLARK PUBLISHING
01 July 2018
"Terrific: illuminating, gripping and deeply rooted in its setting" - Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun

"Riveting, raw... alarming and unforgettable" - Rob Cowen, author of Common Ground

Carved from the valley side above Mytholmroyd in Calderdale, West Yorkshire, Scout Rock is a steep crag overlooking wooded slopes and flat weed-tangled plateaus. To many it is unremarkable, to others it is a doomed place where 18th-century thieves would hide out; where the town tip once sat, suicides leapt to their death and the asbestos that claimed so many lives was buried in the soil. Scout Rock is also the subject of Ted Hughes's 1963 essay `The Rock', in which the poet describes growing up across the valley from "my spiritual midwife... both the curtain and backdrop to my existence."

Into this beautiful, dark and complex landscape steps Benjamin Myers, asking: are unremarkable places made remarkable by the minds that map them? The result is a lyrical and unflinching investigation into nature, literature, history, memory and the very meaning of place in modern Britain.

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Imprint:   ELLIOT & CLARK PUBLISHING
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 138mm, 
ISBN:   9781783963621
ISBN 10:   178396362X
Pages:   256
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Benjamin Myers is an author, journalist and poet. His novels include The Gallows Pole (2017), which received the Roger Deakin Award; Turning Blue (2016); Beastings (2014) which won the Portico Prize For Literature and the Northern Writers' Award, was longlisted for a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Award 2015 and chosen by Robert Macfarlane as one of his books of 2014; Pig Iron (2012), which won the inaugural Gordon Burn Prize and was runner-up in The Guardian's Not The Booker Prize; and Richard (2010), a Sunday Times book of the year. His journalism regularly appears in The Guardian, New Statesman, Mojo, Caught By The River, New Scientist and others. In 2017 he was selected as writer for the International Literature Showcase. He lives in the Upper Calder Valley, West Yorkshire.

Reviews for Under the Rock: The Poetry of a Place

'A bone-tingling book' -- Richard Benson, author of The Valley and The Farm; 'The writing is perfectly poised and seductive, luminous, an earthy immersion into the granular dark of place. The prose has an intense, porous quality, inhabiting the reader right from the stunning start with the voices of rock, earth, wood and water. This is a truly elemental read from which I emerged subtly changed. The writing has a shamanic quality; Benjamin Myers is a writer of exceptional talent and originality ... it has all the makings of a classic' -- Miriam Darlington, author of Otter Country and Owl Sense; 'One of the many joys of Under the Rock - this absorbing, compelling, moving book - is its language; it trickles like a rivulet, thunders like a cataract, and sticks to you like mud. It is full of crannies and dips and peaks wherein wonders hide; explore it for a lifetime and you will not exhaust its mysteries. Unafraid of blood-drenched history and the darkest of despair, this is nonetheless a defiantly life-praising book; it accompanied me to bed and bar, train and plane, and each situation was enriched and brightened by its presence... . It is utterly vital' -- Niall Griffiths, author of Grits, Sheepshagger and Stump; 'Richly layered, densely and elegantly structured, discursive, elegiac and beautiful. Under the Rock is a stunning exploration of place, mind and myth' -- Jenn Ashworth, author of Fell and The Friday Gospels; Prodigious, awe-incurring ... few are as impressive as the formidable Benjamin Myers, who has developed a voice as pure and authentic as it is stark, honest and resolutely northern ... creates an overall sense of dreamy, quiet beauty, born of love for the lie of the land. - The Big Issue; A visionary work of immense power and subtlety which establishes Myers as one of Britain's most consistently interesting and gifted writers - Morning Star; 'Place-writing at its most supple: both deeply considered, and deeply felt' -- Melissa Harrison, author of Rain: Four Walks in English Weather; Best known for his bleak and brilliant crime fiction Myers turns his focus to nature writing with absorbing results in this lyrical exploration of Scout Rock in Yorkshire's Calder Valley - i-news, Best Books to Take on Holiday 2018; Exceptionally engaging ... beguiling ... this is a startling, unclassifiable book - Stuart Kelly, The Scotsman; Thoughtful, engaging and beautifully crafted ... the writing is lyrical yet muscular and elemental, transporting the reader to this plaece of rugged beauty and dark secrets - The Yorkshire Post; 'What distinguishes Under the Rock is Myers' unshakeable commitment. He writes at all times with rock-solid conviction, fashioning a book which is less a work of simple description than a new contribution to the mythology of Elmet' -- Will Ashon, author of Strange Labyrinth, Clear Water and The Heritage; 'I have become a Benjamin Myers junkie in the last 12 months . . . Myers' place-writing is as good as anything being scrawled in Britain today' - Horatio Clare, author of Down to the Sea in Ships and Orison for a Curlew; Terrific... It's a book which doesn't just discuss or describe landscape, but immerses you within it... if this doesn't put Ben Myers on everyone's radar then I don't know what will - Daniel Carpenter, Bookmunch; An author to adopt as your own, a book to turn others on to ... boy does it rock - Cally Callomon, Caught by the River; A daring new work ... make[s] the unremarkable truly remarkable. It's a work that is focused on landscape and place and is another step on this special writer cementing himself as more than just a cult favourite - Narc Magazine; Praise for The Gallows Pole:; 'Fierce, gale-driven prose that speaks to and of the northern English landscape . . . much admiration' -- Robert Macfarlane, author of Landmarks and The Lost Words; 'Terrific: illuminating, gripping and deeply rooted in its setting' -- Amy Liptrot, author of The Outrun; 'Myers is the master of English rural noir' -- Paul Kingsnorth, author of The Wake and Beast; 'Starkly beautiful prose' - Alex Preston, the Guardian; Under the Rock is the most beautifully written non-fiction book... There is an extremely powerful sense of place. I was fully immersed in the landscape, the water, the woods, the rock. Lyrical, powerful, engaging, moving and fascinating. Highly recommended -The Book Corner, Halifax


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