Colonial Countryside 2016 Blackburn mixes fragments from her

Blackburn mixes fragments from her own life with a series of eighteen ‘songs’ and all sorts of stories about the places and the people she meets in her quest to get closer to an understanding of Doggerland

Carol Ann Duffy gifted her thousands of readers an illustrated poem every Christmas

the off-the-wall images and no-holds-barred straight talk

her essays and poems are in conversation with each other around subjects that include love

Colonial Countryside 2016 Blackburn mixes fragments from herColonial Countryside is a book of commissioned poems and short stories produced by ten global majority writers featuring National Trust houses with significant colonial histories. This includes properties whose owners engaged in the slavery business, in colonial administration or who were involved with the East India Company or British rule in India. Historians have accompanied these pieces with commentaries detailing the evidence upon which each