Alison Brackenbury's ballads for the modern world sing with a truth and directness that reach back through Edward Thomas and John Clare to the English folk-tradition itself. There are poems about birds and animals, the ancient rhythms of weather, landscape and season. The modern world is held in balance: terrorism, foreign war and domestic tension.
- ISBN13 9781857549140
- Publish Date 28 February 2008
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 3 November 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 96
- Language English