England's Green
(By Zaffar Kunial)
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Winner of the Ledbury Hellens Poetry Prize for Second Collections
'Zaffar Kunial’s home country as sketched in ENGLAND’S GREEN is literal and carnal, yet there’s a spiritual place rising from these elegant, unforgettable poems, an invisible realm you’re lured into. Kunial is both wise and wise-assed, and he never wastes your time. I read straight through in a bracing guzzle, then flipped back to start over till I was drunk with it. Buy this luminous book: it rewards study.'
MARY KARR author of The Liar’s Club
'England’s Green is one of the strongest contemporary poetry collections I’ve ever read ... ‘Foxglove Country’ is a heart wrenching poem; the speaker meditates on “the little Englands of my grief”, examining the complexities of communication, love, location, and absence.'
VARSITY MAGAZINE
'In whatever reading time is left over I’m picking up and rereading a little clutch of bedside books: 'England’s Green' by the beautifully inventive poet Zaffar Kunial'
ANDREW MILLER author of The Land in Winter
(from the cover)
Zaffar Kunial is a proven master of taking things apart, polishing the fugitive parts of single words, of a sound, a colour, the name of a flower, and putting them back together so that we see them in an entirely different light. In the poems of England's Green, we are invited to look at the place and the language we think we know, and we are made to think again. With everything so newly set, we are alert, as the poet is, to the 'dark missing / step in a stair', entering this new world with bated breath. By such close attention to the parts, the poems have a genius for invoking absence, whether that be a missing father, the death of a mother or a path not taken. Fully formed, they share a centre of gravity: migrations, memories, little transgressions and disturbances, summoned and contained in small gestures - a hand held, the smell of a newly bred rose or the scratch a limpet makes to mark its home.”
