Gallop: Selected Poems by Alison Brackenbury Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella Laura Ring

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Gallop: Selected Poems by Alison Brackenbury Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella Laura RingAlison Brackenbury's poems are haunted by horses, unseasonable love, history, hares and unreasonable hope. Brackenbury's Selected Poems begins in the almost Victorian villages of remote Lincolnshire, where her father tramped, as a ploughboy, behind great Shires and Percherons. Her acclaimed early poem, Dreams of Power, gives voice to a little known woman from the past, Arbella Stuart, and her still contemporary choices: safe solitude, fashionable