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The author and his wife became the first outsiders to live for a year as part of this small Italian community. They became embroiled in the politics of village life, learning about modern Italy, the relationships with Church and State, emigration effects and how an old way of life in under constant threat from encroaching towns.
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A celebration of life, marriage, poetry and Italy
'Full of close observation, often funny, but with awe and wonder at the rough beauty and strangeness of the place' - Colm Toibin
'The poet in him rises to the occasion; he writes beautifully of their experiences with affection and modesty in an account that is both rich and reflective'- Elizabeth Buchan, The Times
The Irish poet Harry Clifton and his wife took up residence in an abandoned parish house in a village of the high Abruzzo, in the mountains of central Italy. Intending to write through the summer months, they remained an entire year. Against the immense backdrop of the Apennines, the tiny community, resistant alike to Church and state, gradually revealed its tensions and its generosities. A silence descends in the autumn as visitors and emigrants return home and the village returns to its isolated self. Winter comes with an iron harshness, but it gives way to the gentle vividness of an Italian mountain spring.
On the Spine of Italy is a celebration of the physical life, of young marriage and the making of poetry, but above all of the resilience of a small village that is a microcosm not only of Italy, but of a moment in the whole life of Europe.
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