landscapes - with a mischievous delight in the detail of the absurd
This unusual and unexpected collection from Matthew Sweeney is a significant addition to his already outstanding body of work
and they respond to the way that sport in Ireland forms our alternative history
almost a century after composition
namely their accuracy
Gallop: Selected Poems by Alison Brackenbury Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella landscapes - with a mischievousAlison Brackenbury's poems are haunted by horses, unseasonable love, history, hares and unreasonable hope. Brackenbury's Selected Poems begins in the almost Victorian villages of remote Lincolnshire, where her father tramped, as a ploughboy, behind great Shires and Percherons. Her acclaimed early poem, Dreams of Power, gives voice to a little known woman from the past, Arbella Stuart, and her still contemporary choices: safe solitude, fashionable