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Blood Earth and Medicine is a collection of poems charting the progress of a casual agricultural labourer voyaging through the seasons, seeing with strange eyes the ocean of hedgerows and woods, farms and farmyards, flocks and orchards, the work of hands and generations of hands. A way of life little known about, for by its very nature it is nomadic and impermanent.
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This book is extraodinary and has a life of its own. It has been translated into French by Rene Agostini of Avignon University and published in Paris by L'Harmattan. It has been dramatised and performed on the stage about fifty times and many of the poems have been heard on BBC radio 4. It is the essence of 20 years hard work on the land and pays tribute to some of the country's most silent and overlooked professions, the casual agricultural labourer.
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