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the spirit of the place
now / listen: / hang on / keep your silence / until the words / ripen / in you
poet Julia Deakin tirelessly questions how we have come to this exhausting impasse
Robyn Bolam
The Lost Book of Barkynge by Ruth Wiggins Nuzhat Bukhari the spirit of the placeIn her debut collection, Ruth Wiggins recovers the forgotten voices of the nuns, abbesses and local women of the medieval abbey at Barking. Against a backdrop of famine, plague, war and spiritual upheaval, these poems explore the strange, uncertain days of the early abbey: mysterious visions, politics, violence and sisterhood, and end with the final abbess mourning the eradication of her home as the Dissolution unhouses her, her sisters, and countless
