A Twitch Upon the Thread - Writers on Fishing

The best fishing writing is never really about fishing, or never only about fishing, and the writers collected in A Twitch Upon the Thread use angling as a way to write about love, loss, faith, and obsession. This is an anthology of fishing writing ranging from medieval times to the present, taking the reader from riverbank to open ocean, from England to New Zealand, from the shore to the depths. Read it and be hooked. Included are contributions from Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Ota Pavel, Arthur Ransome, George Orwell, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Elizabeth Bishop, and dozens more.

About the author

Jon Day is a writer, critic, cyclist, and fisherman. He teaches English at King’s College London, and has written essays and reviews for the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement and many others. He is a regular book critic for the Guardian and the Financial Times, and writes about art for Apollo. His first book, Cyclogeography, was published by Notting Hill Editions in 2015. Homing was published by John Murray in 2019. He was a 2018 Man Booker Prize for Fiction judge.

Summary

The best fishing writing is never only about fishing, and the writers collected in this anthology use angling as a way to write about love, loss, faith, and obsession. Read it and be hooked. Includes contributions from Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, Oto Pavel, Arthur Ransome, George Orwell and dozens more.

Product details

• Authors: Jon Day
• Assisted by: Day Jon (Introduction)
• Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.09.2019
• EAN: 9781912559138
• ISBN: 978-1-912559-13-8
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 190 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 250 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Guides > Nature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Mindfulness, Prose: non-fiction, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, SPORTS & RECREATION / Fishing, SPORTS & RECREATION / History, Literary essays, Anthologies: general, Field sports: fishing, hunting, shooting