Places and Other Poems Mahadai Das A new collection from Michael

A new collection from Michael Laskey is always a cause for celebration

Christopher Reid’s most recent book is Six Bad Poets (Faber)

well-illumined and indelible a manner that there can be no mistaking their poems and prose for those of another

fables and fragments of history of the Amerindian peoples of Guyana and the Caribbean

the discovery that the agrarian reform plan had handed the peasants largely uncultivable strips of rocky ground

Places and Other Poems Mahadai Das A new collection from MichaelCreator of the lightly fictionalized region of Wessex, where Reading features as Aldbrickham, Thomas Hardy was a poet for whom ideas of place played a central role in his work . In this new collection of his poems, each selected for its relation to a specific locale, and finely illustrated by Sally Castle, Hardys imagination appears most intensely engaged by connections between people and place. This latest offering from the classic poetry series of