We are delighted to announce the world-wide release of The Marriage Hearse, a brand new collection from acclaimed poet, Lucy Newlyn.
Lucy Newlyn is a retired academic, who taught English for over thirty years at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where she is now an Emeritus Fellow. In addition to academic books and articles on English Romanticism, she has published three collections of poetry: Ginnel (Carcanet, 2005), Earth’s Almanac (Enitharmon, 2015) and Vital Stream (Carcanet, 2019). She was for a number of years Literary Editor of the Oxford Magazine, and she co-founded the Hall Writers’ Forum. She lives and writes in Cornwall.
Featuring 44 new poems, The Marriage Hearse explores the lives of a childless young couple in Edwardian England. A truly heartbreaking collection with a narrative that will take the reader from cover to cover again and again. Available now from our on-line shop. Free postage and packing to UK address. A collection to be savoured.
The cover artwork features the painting, Dipyn o ddrws by Wil Rowlands. You can find out more about Wil’s work here
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