The Field in Winter Ghislaine LeungThe Field in Winter, the third collection of poetry by David Clarke, winner of the Michael Marks Award, elegantly reflects on memory, time, and the very particular landscape of grieving. The book takes the form of a calendar of grief, exploring ageing, losing a parent, and how we manage the changing nature of things. A poem from previous collection, The Europeans, was selected by the Guardian as a Poem of the Week. The collection was also reviewed in
they live out their entangled existences
attentive learning
arranged anonymously (fully indexed at the back)
while he holds on tight to all he knows
Readers of this book will undoubtedly hope that Markham will publish another novel soon
a memoir of his late parents which was longlisted for the 2007 Samuel Johnson Prize
There are no rules at Grandma’s
Bats have had a bad press
Amit Majmudar
decently hidden from view
Jeremy Dixon’s second poetry collection A Voice Coming From Then starts from his teenage suicide attempt and expands to encompass themes of bullying
Hardwick’s world closely resembles our own until we look close and see a retired Elvis gardening in suburbia
