Near-Life Experience by Rowland Bagnall Alison Brackenbury It embraces the Romantic visions

It embraces the Romantic visions of Blake

Hollie McNish and Grace Nichols to name but a few

Pope’s collection deftly grapples with loss

won both Rathbone Folio Prize and the Ted Hughes Award

Near-Life Experience by Rowland Bagnall Alison Brackenbury It embraces the Romantic visionsStrike 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