The English Summer by Holly Hopkins
PBS Summer Special Commendation 2022 Alex Josephy and through his own life’s

and through his own life’s story as he selected poems published during each year of his life

'Clarke registers with memorable cadence and verbal simplicity the changing pattern of the seasons as it shapes the daily life of a farm and

at the same time mythical and mystical

through a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and England

The English Summer by Holly Hopkins <b><br>PBS Summer Special Commendation 2022</b> Alex Josephy and through his own life’sA Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Seaweed and sunburn. The death of a fridge. A 'pie faced' St George upstaged by the horse. The English Summer confronts the illusions and paradoxes of history in poems that reimagine medieval anchorites and 18th century follies, zombies and the Megabus. This is a landscape populated by overcrowded urban bedsits and burnt out country piles, where ghosts of the past are sensed beneath dual carriageways and old