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  1. Strength of the Hills

    Strength of the Hills: George Ewart Evans

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  2. The Crooked Scythe

    The Crooked Scythe: George Ewart Evans

    George Ewart Evans, who wrote the classic Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay, was one of the pioneers of oral history. This anthology is drawn from his writings about ... More

  3. Elmet

    Elmet: Ted Hughes

    Most of the poems in this book were written by Ted Hughes in response to Fay Godwin's photographs of the part of Yorkshire in which he grew up. Their collaboration ... More

  4. Floods

    Floods: Maurice Riordan

    The poems in Maurice Riordan's second collection are unusual in their recourse to the humanist belief in poetry as one of the forms of knowledge, imparting information about the observable ... More

  5. Electric Light

    Electric Light: Seamus Heaney

    Electric Light travels widely in time and space, visiting the sites of the classical world, revisiting the poet's childhood: rural electrification and the light of ancient evenings are reconciled within ... More

  6. Opened Ground

    Opened Ground: Seamus Heaney

    This volume is a much-needed new selection of Seamus Heaney's work, taking account of recent volumes and of the author's work as a translator, and offering a more generous choice ... More

  7. Annie Dunne

    Annie Dunne: Sebastian Barry

    Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live and work on a small farm in a remote and beautiful part of Wicklow in late 1950s Ireland. All about them the old ... More

  8. Public Property

    Public Property: Andrew Motion

    Andrew Motion's first collection since his appointment as Poet Laureate moves between private and public realms, pondering each from the other's borders. In a series of elegiac idylls he conjures ... More

  9. The Invention of Dr Cake

    The Invention of Dr Cake: Andrew Motion

    To all appearances, Dr Cake is an unexceptional man.After a period of study and practice in London, and several years travelling in Europe, he has chosen the life of a ... More

  10. Moortown Diary

    Moortown Diary: Ted Hughes

    Originally published in 1979, Moortown Diary is the updated version of Ted Hughes's acclaimed Devon farming sequence, written over a period of several years during which he was spending almost ... More

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