Deep in limestone country, at the corner of the counties of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, lies the village of Coleshill.
This haunting new collection from Fiona Sampson is a portrait of place, both real and imaginary; a dreamscape with its roots deep in the farming village of Coleshill.
The poems hum with an evocative music of their own: there are hymns of the orchards, verses for walkers, songs for bees. These are slices of life and states of mind; poems of grief, fears and maledictions, but also of renewal, resurrections and the promise of spring.
Coleshill emerges as a �parish of sun / and shade�; its darkness and light both perfectly balanced. From the TS Eliot and Forward Prize shortlisted poet comes a deep, interrogative collection of astonishing clarity and power.
