The Knucklebone FloorThe Knucklebone Floor is partly a verse biography of Susan Davidson (1796 1877), who spent thirty years landscaping and developing the grounds of Allen Banks in Northumberland, including woodland, paths, rustic bridges and a summerhouse with a knucklebone floor. It is also a book about boundaries and wilderness, fragility and resilience, flora and fauna, people and places, then and now, women and men, the human world and the natural world. Richly and

Literary contributions from Sharon Millar

He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Leeds

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swimmers and drowned sailors

Bruising and confrontational

How to be a Tarot Card (or a Teenager) explores

There’s no time to waste if he is to classify every element of the natural world in a single work

Andrea Zanzotto

from Alaska to Missouri

"This newly published collection is a joy… and you don't have to be a 'literary' person to appreciate it

and faced starvation

Anne Hartigan's work has always been acutely tuned to the sacredness of the sensual