Near-Life Experience by Rowland Bagnall Alison Brackenbury and to see

and to see

It embraces the Romantic visions of Blake

won both Rathbone Folio Prize and the Ted Hughes Award

resumes the work of making present signatures of persons often missing from the record

and a Book of the Year in the Telegraph

Near-Life Experience by Rowland Bagnall Alison Brackenbury and to seeStrike up music! Scope tomorrows printless straits! I slice the tomatoes, saving their skins their seeds freckle the countertop. No ideas but in No ideas but in things tell me about it The poems in Near Life Experience are curious about the present moment, its weather and animals, its objects and things. They want to make it real in language, catching it before it vanishes. Documenting landscapes, paintings, insects and trees, Near Life Experience