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Deep in limestone country, at the corner of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, and Gloucestershire, lays the town of Coleshill. This haunting new collection from Fiona Sampson is a family portrait of place, both real and imaginary; a dreamscape with its roots deep in the local dirt. The poems hum with an evocative music of their own: there are hymns of the orchards, verses for walkers, music for bees. These are pieces of life and state governments of brain; poems of grief, doubts, and maledictions, but also of renewal, resurrections, and the guarantee of springtime. Coleshill emerges as a "parish of sunlight / and cover from the sun"; its darkness and light flawlessly balanced. Through the T.S. Eliot and In advance Prize shortlisted poet comes a deep, interrogative collection of astonishing clearness and power.
