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This panoramic sequence of poems traces our changing relationship over the ages to Nature, Land and the Garden andembraces contrasting but interrelated levels of domestic, political and spiritual significance.

Starting from our ancient understanding of being woven into a World manifestly alive, it goes on to picture our loss of thissense, the rise of our Christian culture out of the ruins of Rome and its decline as our desire and capacity to dominate,control and profit from the natural world steadily increases. The Sequence also looks at paintings and drawings from theeighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to trace the increasing pace of the enclosures of common land with its far-reaching implications for land ownership and economic practice and the challenges this continues to pose for significantnumbers today for a decent and affordable place to live.

Common Wealth also looks into the heart of how we regard and value the natural world, an issue of increasi

Common Wealth

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    Publisher: Troubador Publishing
    Publication Date: 1/28/2020
    ISBN13: 9781838594091, 978-1838594091
    ISBN10: 1838594094

    Fiction , Poetry

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    This panoramic sequence of poems traces our changing relationship over the ages to Nature, Land and the Garden andembraces contrasting but interrelated levels of domestic, political and spiritual significance.

    Starting from our ancient understanding of being woven into a World manifestly alive, it goes on to picture our loss of thissense, the rise of our Christian culture out of the ruins of Rome and its decline as our desire and capacity to dominate,control and profit from the natural world steadily increases. The Sequence also looks at paintings and drawings from theeighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to trace the increasing pace of the enclosures of common land with its far-reaching implications for land ownership and economic practice and the challenges this continues to pose for significantnumbers today for a decent and affordable place to live.

    Common Wealth also looks into the heart of how we regard and value the natural world, an issue of increasi

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