Product Description
A collection of moving, witty and passionate poems about love, loss and landscape, about men and women struggling to find meaning in a land reeling from urbanisation. Here too are beautifully crafted homages to Donne, Arnold, Clare, Betjeman and many more.
About the Author
Alan Franks' poems have won several prizes, including the Wigtown Prize, Scotland's largest. His recent collection of novellas, 'Going Over', was published by Muswell Press and his novel 'Boychester's Bugle' by Heinemann. He has also recorded four albums of his songs with the singer Patti Vetta. His many plays include 'The Mother Tongue', starring Prunella Scales. He has recently retired as a long standing writer for The Times and has twice been nominated for a British Press Award.
