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Jim Crace’s Harvest begins with ‘harvest end’. It is a time for the village to glean, to bend and gather grain that has been left behind by the reapers. For Walter Thirsk, Crace’s conflicted narrator, gleaning during this time after harvest is a timeless practice: ‘ancient gleaning rights’ are linked to an equally ‘ancient understanding’ that the village’s paternal landowner, Master Kent, will take ‘care of us’. Yet Walter sees his world alter. As in Crace’s first collection, Continent, ‘Modernisations are in progress’. Gleaning in the unnamed everyvillage takes place not only after harvest but after every harvest: the villagers’ ‘break from labour’ a severing from field-work as such; the reapers’ ‘final sheaf’ their last. In the course of the narrative, Walter comes to call gleaning ‘that ancient day’, calling time on customary rights that are scratched out in the name of the ‘Progress and Prosperity’ promised by enclosure. Enclosure in the text is out of time. The English enclosures were a series of locally-variable changes in land use and ownership lasting several centuries; but just as its village is every-village, the text ‘looks and behaves like natalie joelle holds an AHRC scholarship in the Department of English and Humanities, Birkbeck, University of London, where she is working on an interdisciplinary study of gleaning. She read English at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, followed by an MA in Cultural and Critical Studies at Birkbeck and art historical research at Madingley Hall, Cambridge.

'I stand at the threshold of the gleaning field': 'Harvest' by Jim Crace