The Hill by Angela France Sean O'Brien and sometimes gives way to

and sometimes gives way to an exquisitely refined lyricism

Neil Powell has returned to his poems of the past fifty years and arranged them as nearly as possible in chronological order of completion

getting lost

perhaps you’ll want to chuckle at them under the covers with a torch

taking you on a journey around many of the different aspects of everyday life explored in poems

The Hill by Angela France Sean O'Brien and sometimes gives way toAngela Frances The Hill is a remarkable sequence of poems that leads us up the winding footpaths of Leckhampton Hill near Cheltenham. Under our feet are fossils and flora, bones and the relics of quarrying. France is masterful in capturing the sense of place and weaving the entrancing voices of the hill, its walkers and inhabitants, into the fabric of these formally adventurous poems that range from prose to anglish, richly worded and delighting in