Goyle, Chert, Mire by Jean Sprackland immigrant Father's Father's Father (Carcanet Press)

Father's Father's Father (Carcanet Press)

He is the author of a previous poetry collection

Isobel Dixon

A magnificent anthology of poems themed around different moods

Goyle, Chert, Mire by Jean Sprackland immigrant Father's Father's Father (Carcanet Press)Each of the three sections in Goyle, Chert, Mire focuses on one of the distinctive elements characteristic of the Blackdown Hills " a little known, sparsely populated area straddling the border between Somerset and Devon " and in particular the remote springline valley where the author lives. In this unique landscape, relatively unchanged over the centuries, the past is so evident that it can come to seem indistinguishable from the present. Illness