The cycle of almost-sonnets gathered here began life in the opening days of the Covid 19 lockdown, when the author and his wife took on the rental of a run-down, rabbit-besieged local allotment.These many-hinged poems, bricolaged from the materials of daily life, memory, myth, art, music and literature (haunted in places by the stupefied characters of A Midsummer Night’s Dream) reflect, amongst other things, on the nature of nature, both inner and outer, and on the intricacies of a personal engagement with and sometimes against it. A portion of fate, the span of a life, a measured patch of ground for the cultivation of vegetables: the word ‘allotment’ has many possible usages. And, of course, there is always the question of Utopia…
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