Colonial Countryside 2016 and head and tail bands

and head and tail bands

August Kleinzahler describes Cullen’s poetry: “If there’s a musical analogue for this poetry it’s the swoosh and sizzle of wire brushes swept across the frum head or the Chinese cymbal

a poet worthy of keeping company with the best lyric writers in our tradition

poetry in translation and contemporary poets writing about their own work alongside the original drafts of their poems (scribbled on everything from schoolbooks to prison toilet paper

Carol Ann Duffy gifted her thousands of readers an illustrated poem every Christmas

Colonial Countryside 2016 and head and tail bandsColonial Countryside is a book of commissioned poems and short stories produced by ten global majority writers featuring National Trust houses with significant colonial histories. This includes properties whose owners engaged in the slavery business, in colonial administration or who were involved with the East India Company or British rule in India. Historians have accompanied these pieces with commentaries detailing the evidence upon which each