The poems in Earth's Almanac emerged over a fifteen-year period following the untimely death of the poet's sister. Lucy Newlyn adapts the tradition of the 'Shepherd's Calendar' to the phases of grief, condensing a long process of reflection and remembering into the passage of a single year. The poems shift through forms and move between places - Oxford, Borrowdale, and finally Cornwall, where the poet finds a second home near the sea. In these intense expressions of love and loss, anger and guilt, there is no smooth path towards consolation.
- ISBN10 1910392103
- ISBN13 9781910392102
- Publish Date 13 July 2015
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Enitharmon Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 64
- Language English