place and time become the “distance between things that stand like sisters”
Alongside poems of extreme descriptive vigour
especially arising out of the joy and rowdy peace of parenthood
Their latest collaboration tells the more sombre story – in six-line rhyming stanzas – of a young lad from a Yorkshire pit village who finds himself caught up in the horrors of the First World War
Both collections were Highly Commended in the Forward Poetry Prizes
A True and Just Record by Kate Bolton Bonnici A. A. Milne place and time become theHecate like, A True & Just Record invites us to the three way crossroads of poetry, feminist rhetorics, and early modern studies. Kate Bolton Bonnici weaves together archival materials from the English witch trials, 20th century poets and philosophers, and her own family. With fury and care, haunted by absences, these poemsall also forms of experimental scholarshipinterrogate, disrupt, and play. Boiler House Press