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For readers who enjoy travel writing, encounters with different cultures and poetry about finding a place to belong. Through village life, changing seasons and friendships in south-eastern Bulgaria, Anne Peterson explores how an unfamiliar country can become another home. This chapbook contains poems inspired by Anne’s travels in Bulgaria and showcases her love for the country and its people.
‘Going Home’ is an evocation of the author’s encounters with the natural, economic and cultural environment of south-eastern Bulgaria. In Anne’s words, “I knew nothing about Bulgaria until my husband Keith said he’d like to go there to look at houses. We ended up buying one in a small village in the south east. We were overwhelmed by our neighbours’ friendliness and interest in our work on the house and garden. As we got to know them individually, I found I wanted to write about the differences, highlighting special moments – things I’d never experienced in England.”
The poems trace Anne’s initial sense of dépaysement at moving to a country so different from her previous life, and chart her growing familiarity with a warm-hearted people and their country rhythms.
The reader is left with Anne’s paradoxical sense that going home may require reversing the direction of travel. As Chrissie Williams says, “A sense of dislocation and relocation permeate these subtle and rewarding poems. The seasons change, life changes as the poet contemplates her double life and what it is to be home alone.”
Anne’s current home is in Dorset, where she has hosted the Speakeasy group for many years. She feels that poems should be accessible. To quote her, “Accessibility is important. A reader should find enough in the poem to be able to enjoy it, if not on first reading then on the second or third. Some really lovely poems are easily accessible. Sometimes readers or listeners find meanings in a poem that the author isn’t even aware of.”
Find out more here.
NB: If you are ordering for delivery outside the UK, please contact us via ditheringchaps@gmail.com to obtain the latest postal rates. Thank you.
Plus postage and packing
For readers who enjoy travel writing, encounters with different cultures and poetry about finding a place to belong. Through village life, changing seasons and friendships in south-eastern Bulgaria, Anne Peterson explores how an unfamiliar country can become another home. This chapbook contains poems inspired by Anne’s travels in Bulgaria and showcases her love for the country and its people.
‘Going Home’ is an evocation of the author’s encounters with the natural, economic and cultural environment of south-eastern Bulgaria. In Anne’s words, “I knew nothing about Bulgaria until my husband Keith said he’d like to go there to look at houses. We ended up buying one in a small village in the south east. We were overwhelmed by our neighbours’ friendliness and interest in our work on the house and garden. As we got to know them individually, I found I wanted to write about the differences, highlighting special moments – things I’d never experienced in England.”
The poems trace Anne’s initial sense of dépaysement at moving to a country so different from her previous life, and chart her growing familiarity with a warm-hearted people and their country rhythms.
The reader is left with Anne’s paradoxical sense that going home may require reversing the direction of travel. As Chrissie Williams says, “A sense of dislocation and relocation permeate these subtle and rewarding poems. The seasons change, life changes as the poet contemplates her double life and what it is to be home alone.”
Anne’s current home is in Dorset, where she has hosted the Speakeasy group for many years. She feels that poems should be accessible. To quote her, “Accessibility is important. A reader should find enough in the poem to be able to enjoy it, if not on first reading then on the second or third. Some really lovely poems are easily accessible. Sometimes readers or listeners find meanings in a poem that the author isn’t even aware of.”
Find out more here.
NB: If you are ordering for delivery outside the UK, please contact us via ditheringchaps@gmail.com to obtain the latest postal rates. Thank you.