Kevin Crossley-Holland is already known for his translations from Old English and his books for children; his first full collection of poems carries further this preoccupation with the past and future, and their pertinence. There are poems about the bleak and levelling north coast of Norfolk..poems which discover analogies in durable things - stone, a grave, an ancient building, a passage from Kilvert's diaries, an island, a yellow flower...
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