Coleshill

By Fiona Sampson

Deep in limestone country, at the corner of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, lies the village of Coleshill. This haunting new collection from Fiona Sampson is a portrait of place, both real and imaginary; a dreamscape with its roots deep in the local soil. The poems hum with an evocative music of their own: there are hymns of the orchards, verses for walkers, songs for bees. These are slices of life and states of mind; poems of grief, fears and maledictions, but also of renewal, resurrections and the promise of spring. Coleshill emerges as a "parish of sun / and shade"; its darkness and light perfectly balanced. From the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prize shortlisted poet comes a deep, interrogative collection of astonishing clarity and power.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 070118647X
• ISBN13: 9780701186470
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 8.2"