Pomona's Orchard by Adrian Blamires Layli Long Soldier As artists we use whatever

As artists we use whatever tools are readily available to us

that distinctly English poetic sensibility

surprising verse across nearly four decades of writing

in the words of McCrae

and in the varied silences of human and divine relationships

Pomona's Orchard by Adrian Blamires Layli Long Soldier As artists we use whateverPomona's Orchard, Adrian Blamires' third collection, is dedicated to the arts of peace. Its tutelary spirits include Caliban tending to the dying Prospero, a great aunt rescuing cats and dogs in the Blitz, the enlightened schoolmaster to an orphaned John Keats, and Pomona, Roman goddess of fruitful propagation, as the genius loci of a Herefordshire orchard. Miracles of love and healing are conjured in the face of violence and rapacity. Lament and