The Lost Book of Barkynge by Ruth Wiggins Paul Sutherland of political and religious opponents

of political and religious opponents of the Nazi regime

Carol Ann Duffy’s much-celebrated festive poems

Di Giorgio’s obsessive

Huchel surprises us as a fresh and startling voice for our own numbered days

The Lost Book of Barkynge by Ruth Wiggins Paul Sutherland of political and religious opponentsIn her debut collection, Ruth Wiggins recovers the forgotten voices of the nuns, abbesses and local women of the medieval abbey at Barking. Against a backdrop of famine, plague, war and spiritual upheaval, these poems explore the strange, uncertain days of the early abbey: mysterious visions, politics, violence and sisterhood, and end with the final abbess mourning the eradication of her home as the Dissolution unhouses her, her sisters, and countless