Mountain on Top of a Mountain by Malcom Ritchie #TSEliotPrize Hadfield is a highly respected

Hadfield is a highly respected poet of the natural world whose wide-ranging creativity is inextricably linked with the Scottish island of Shetland

found abandoned in a peat bog in the Netherlands

Beowulf – the earliest surviving English epic – was written down at some point between the eighth and the early eleventh centuries

The poetic styles on show are similarly varied

such as the killing of Bigfoot and a slave on a slave ship

Mountain on Top of a Mountain by Malcom Ritchie #TSEliotPrize Hadfield is a highly respectedWhile editors and publishers in the past have always described my short form poems as haiku, I prefer to call the majority of the short form poems of the type in this collection as One strike Poems, since the term 'haiku' relates to a very different cultural and historical mind set and developmental literary process. And long before my awareness of haiku, the source of my short form poems came originally from my interest in the chants and prayers of