Description: |
The book brings together old and new poems which bear witness to relationships, history, East Anglia, language, the craft of writing, the meeting-places of body and spirit; as well as musings on youth and old age, friendship, love and the layers of landscape. |
Synopsis: |
Kevin Crossley-Holland is a poet, translator from Anglo-Saxon, librettist, reteller of traditional tales and novelist for children. The Mountains of Norfolk brings together poems from eight previous collections, spare yet sensuous, bearing witness to relationships, history, East Anglia, language and the craft of writing, and the meeting-places of body and spirit. The volume also contains a group of new poems musing on youth and old age, friendship, love and the layers of landscape. |