The Grail Roads by Rob Hindle Algernon Charles Swinburne These notes aspire towards the

These notes aspire towards the condition of poetry

Becky Barnicoat

One of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English

He has also published two novels and

With trademark formality he runs his eye over an array of themes

The Grail Roads by Rob Hindle Algernon Charles Swinburne These notes aspire towards theThe ribbon of land that runs through north west France and into Flanders is always being turned over. Each year, the ploughs of French and Belgian farmers uncover shrapnel, bullets, barbed wire and artillery shells; an iron harvest that takes in the jumbled debris of the Hundred Years War, the Napoleonic Wars, and, in particular, the First World War. The Grail Roads digs deep into the cultural strata of these conflicts, and is haunted by their