The English River by Virginia Astley Robyn Schiff This format makes it even

This format makes it even more suitable as a gift book for all those people you’re sure would love modern poetry if only they were familiar with these kinds of poems

Is this just an illusion

then you will find familiar themes here: the search for a mature wisdom

Published by Bloodaxe 26 October 2017

to be / concealing precisely as he displays

The English River by Virginia Astley Robyn Schiff This format makes it evenVirginia Astley has been a much admired songwriter and musician since the 1980s, known for her engaging lyrics as well as for her melodious style. Now her other two passions take centre stage in this book: poetry and the River Thames. She grew up by the rivers upper reaches, knew the old lock keepers and was familiar with all aspects of the Thames and its hinterland: both the natural world and the people whose lives are intimately connected with the