Colonial Countryside women'spoetry the Chornobyl disaster

the Chornobyl disaster

and shortlisted for the Jane Martin Poetry Prize and the London Magazine Poetry Prize

A remarkable sequence entitled 'Route 110' plots the descent into the underworld in the Aeneid against single moments in the arc of a life

subtly erotic

but beyond that ancestry leads through slavery to the broken heritage of Africa

Colonial Countryside women'spoetry the Chornobyl disasterColonial 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