An anthology of essays by English poets, Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts, on the subject of Edgeland -a term originally defined by Marion Shoard for interfacial spaces between urban and rural. The authors use the term, explore the etymology and the characteristics of the space within individual essays, under short direct titles such as paths, dens, gardens and woodlands. The author’s voice, which is indistinguishable with Farley and Roberts writing as one, is melancholic and romantic yet descriptive and accurate of the spaces themselves with the intended audience of psychogeographers and landscape narrative fiction. Farley and Roberts criticise contemporary landscape authors for romanticising wilderness within the British landscape as a misanthropic fascination rather than taking advantage of nearby nature in the Edgelands. The authors also criticise psychogeographer authors and their use of Edgelands as a backdrop and a means of negative misanthropic observations
... the love shown for the edgelands is too strong (Macfarlane, 2011)
# Bibliography
Macfarlane, R. (2011) Edgelands by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts - review, the Guardian. Available at: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/feb/19/edgelands-farley-symmons-roberts-review.