Dusk: New and Selected Poems Ziba Karbassi 'I found the sheer diversity

'I found the sheer diversity of this collection both impressive and also reassuring because it certainly suggests that there need be nothing particularly confining about identifying oneself as a Jewish writer' - Edinburgh Star

After a discussion of the repertoire

and it does much more than revel in secure country childhood

in the interweaving of distinct landscapes and

but there is also love

Dusk: New and Selected Poems Ziba Karbassi 'I found the sheer diversityI. P. Taylor has been writing about the lost landscapes of the North for over forty years old earthworks, ruined churches, derelict mine workings, Neolithic barrows and deserted villages. Bringing together the best of this work in a single volume, Dusk is a book about enclosure, famine and deforestation, about bleak moorlands, sunken roads, nettles and cobwebs. Exploring between the pages of history, superstition, myth and the threadbare cloak of folk