cybermule | The Soil Never Sleeps

First a disclaimer in that I've know Adam for 40 years - we hung out as kids and reconnected recently.

That over, I haven't read poetry in years and I enjoyed this immensely. I was expecting something more abstract when in fact it was a collection commisioned by a farming union and was therefore a very concrete hands-on set of poems about a poet from Laurie Lee country being thrown onto four geographically disparte farms in Britain and having to make sense of them in their current context. Then turn it into poems. And it really works. The collection was pulled together at the end with a couple of more abstract pieces that were more what I was expecting, more about soil and ecological woo than sheep maintenance and abbatoirs.

By all means buy a copy and support a starving poet. I bartered mine for a fire pit and you're also welcome to borrow that.