Uncommon Place by Gerrie Fellows Julia Bird Dowling’s subsequent collections

Dowling’s subsequent collections

though nourished by a loving wife and the pleasures of the garden

 at the same time as Alternative Anthem

Hooker is 'making a shape out of the very things' that have made him

'Pure Hustle is a gem of book in which Kate Potts conjures a poetry which astonishes and moves the reader

Uncommon Place by Gerrie Fellows Julia Bird Dowling’s subsequent collectionsUncommon Place is a book rooted in Scotland's mountains and open spaces, its fenced enclosures and mined ground. It develops from earlier books what Tom Leonard has called "the most intelligent debate between technology and nature in poetry that I know." Through rivers, weather and wild creatures, as well as through industrial landscapes and urban spaces, the poems explore a core preoccupation, that of how we experience being in place, the