Broadlands by Matt Howard Caroline Hardaker Amali Rodrigo

Amali Rodrigo

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Broadlands by Matt Howard Caroline Hardaker Amali RodrigoThe poems of Matt Howards Broadlands are grounded in the reedbeds, meadows and marshes of the Norfolk Broads. They are closely and thrillingly observed from real encounters, inviting us closer to the more than human world, its violence, fragility and wonder. Yet the human is always and all the more present; here too are poems of desire, love and grief. They are poems of the field, imaginings from the conservation of habitats restored and created,