Colonial Countryside 2016 a poet worthy of keeping

a poet worthy of keeping company with the best lyric writers in our tradition

and head and tail bands

the world around us and ourselves

Spike Milligan

Blackburn mixes fragments from her own life with a series of eighteen ‘songs’ and all sorts of stories about the places and the people she meets in her quest to get closer to an understanding of Doggerland

Colonial Countryside 2016 a poet worthy of keepingColonial Countryside is a book of commissioned poems and short stories produced by ten global majority writers featuring National Trust houses with significant colonial histories. This includes properties whose owners engaged in the slavery business, in colonial administration or who were involved with the East India Company or British rule in India. Historians have accompanied these pieces with commentaries detailing the evidence upon which each