Gallop: Selected Poems by Alison Brackenbury Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella This unusual and unexpected collection

This unusual and unexpected collection from Matthew Sweeney is a significant addition to his already outstanding body of work

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Read him while he is still contemporary' – Fiona Sampson

Gallop: Selected Poems by Alison Brackenbury Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella This unusual and unexpected collectionAlison Brackenbury's poems are haunted by horses, unseasonable love, history, hares and unreasonable hope. Brackenbury's Selected Poems begins in the almost Victorian villages of remote Lincolnshire, where her father tramped, as a ploughboy, behind great Shires and Percherons. Her acclaimed early poem, Dreams of Power, gives voice to a little known woman from the past, Arbella Stuart, and her still contemporary choices: safe solitude, fashionable