Backalong

BackalongAuthor: Nia Broomhall ISBN: 9781780377162 Publisher: Bloodaxe Year first published: 02 Jan 2025 Pages: 32 Format: Pamphlet Backalong, a dialect word from Nia Broomhall's native Somerset, describes any point in the past it could be this March, last March, or 1979. True to its title, her impressive debut collection observes the distant past and recent past with the same eyes: the distant past through poems of place and origin; the recent through poems

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