Pomona's Orchard Format:Paperback

Pomona's Orchard Format:PaperbackPomonas Orchard, Adrian Blamires third collection, is dedicated to the arts of peace. Its tutelary spirits include Caliban tending to the dying Prospero, a great aunt rescuing cats and dogs in the Blitz, the enlightened schoolmaster to an orphaned John Keats, and Pomona, Roman goddess of fruitful propagation, as the genius loci of a Herefordshire orchard. Miracles of love and healing are conjured in the face of violence and rapacity. Lament and

translated by Rachel McNicholl

This is why I like very much this selection of poems by David Betteridge

including the Treasure Islands

and wrestle with the muddledness of the inner life exposed

Edgar Mittelholzer’s autobiography

shows a poet trying to reconcile his rural heritage with an Ireland in the process of transition

with tenderness

atmospheric mystery

a wolf-peacock

family and a crumbling society that sees Luke Wright at the peak of his powers

it is more difficult and dangerous than he imagines

• Harry Martinson