Lorde’s luminous writings have inspired a new generation of thinkers and writers charged by the Black Lives Matter movement
Palestine (the title poem refers to the refusal of the Israeli broadcasting authorities to mention the names of children killed during the Israeli shelling of Gaza in 2014) – to the lives of Rosen’s parents and grandparents – the General Strike
many women find themselves isolated in a wartime of their own when their loved ones are involved in conflicts overseas
Di Slaney abandoned her urban existence to become the custodian of an ancient farmhouse in Nottinghamshire
To Fold the Evening Star will satisy both the curious newcomer and the familiar reader alike
Gallop: Selected Poems by Alison Brackenbury Deryn Rees-Jones Lorde’s luminous writings have inspiredAlison 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