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At the Skin Resort is a collection poetry set in Central and Eastern Europe and written in the years following the revolutions of 1989. The poet, James Sutherland-Smith went there to work early in 1989 and found himself caught up in th events of that time. He has settled in Slovakia which is a country in the heart of the Slavonic nations and subject to the various influences and pressures from north, south,east and west. It is a place of astonishing variety interms of culture, history and nature and is exemplary for recent and more ancient history. Sutherland-Smith's poems are not,however, travel poems, but poems whose significance communicates beyond their locale.
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At the Skin Resort, James Sutherland-Smith
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- Released
- 1999
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- Title
- At the Skin Resort
- Language
- English
- Authors
- James Sutherland-Smith
- Publisher
- Arc Publications
- Released
- 1999
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 72
- ISBN10
- 1900072238
- ISBN13
- 9781900072236
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, World Literature
- Rating
- 3 out of 5
- Description
- At the Skin Resort is a collection poetry set in Central and Eastern Europe and written in the years following the revolutions of 1989. The poet, James Sutherland-Smith went there to work early in 1989 and found himself caught up in th events of that time. He has settled in Slovakia which is a country in the heart of the Slavonic nations and subject to the various influences and pressures from north, south,east and west. It is a place of astonishing variety interms of culture, history and nature and is exemplary for recent and more ancient history. Sutherland-Smith's poems are not,however, travel poems, but poems whose significance communicates beyond their locale.