Collected Poems by Frances Horovitz James Brookes ’ – Charles Boyle

’ – Charles Boyle

she maintains a sense of wonder at the resilience of nature

‘something might arrive / to coax the present fi eld from its ghost

Beautifully illustrated with scenes from each season

Collected Poems by Frances Horovitz James Brookes ’ – Charles BoyleFrances Horovitzs poems have the clarity of ballad and the power of myth. Her finely honed lyrics 'strike to areas of the soul as old as humanity itself'. Many were inspired by the remote Cotswold valley where she lived for ten years; others by the border country of Cumbria and the Welsh Marches. Her posthumous Collected Poems (1985) was one of the landmark volumes of postwar British poetry. She was one of the finest ever readers of poetry, and this