England's Green by Zaffar Kunial
PBS Recommendation Autumn 2022 Philip Gross especially those of dissident

especially those of dissident

What about the politics of the word craft itself

all life is here

and utterly worth fighting for

MacKay's introduction is itself a masterpiece of literary placement and his intelligent selection of Plomer's work will go far in assuring this twentieth-century master his rightful place in the canon

England's Green by Zaffar Kunial<br> <b> PBS Recommendation Autumn 2022</b> Philip Gross especially those of dissidentZaffar Kunial is a proven master of taking things apart, polishing up the fugitive parts of single words, of a sound, a colour, the name of a flower, and putting them back together so that we see them in an entirely different light. In the poems of Englands Greenwe are invited to look at the place and the language we think we know and made to think again. With everything so newly set, we are alert, as the poet is, to the dark missing step in a stair,