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that distinctly English poetic sensibility
asking – are they fit for purpose
This is a timeless debut: wise
surprising verse across nearly four decades of writing
Pomona's Orchard by Adrian Blamires Layli Long Soldier that distinctly English poetic sensibilityPomona'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
