Bog Queens by Kate Noakes Broken Sleep Books Kenneth Graham and Charlotte Bronte

Kenneth Graham and Charlotte Bronte as well as lesser known but no less insightful poets and writers to discover

From a library near Sappho

this exquisitely observed sequence of haiku and haibun was written during lockdown

into the River Styx to protect all but his famous heel where her hand grips

Bog Queens by Kate Noakes Broken Sleep Books Kenneth Graham and Charlotte BronteIn Bog Queens, Kate Noakes unearths a chorus of voices from Europe's peat bogs, transforming archaeological discoveries into urgent testimonies of violence, survival, and ecological change. From domestic murder to ritual sacrifice, from ancient trackways to modern conservation, she explores how we read and misread the bodies history preserves. Through intimate first person narratives and sharp observational poems, Noakes challenges our assumptions