Cranic of Ordinaries by Eliza O'Toole Pan Macmillan The collection examines the farm

The collection examines the farm as home from early beginnings to the farm auction at the end of their working lives

presents an extraordinary

Such contradictions are expressed in his intense poetry

Odubanjo was a singular voice in British poetry

Cranic of Ordinaries by Eliza O'Toole Pan Macmillan The collection examines the farmThis cranic, or skull, of ordinaries is a landscape well known to poet Eliza O'Toole who has long tramped the Stour Valley on the Suffolk Essex border with her dog Fin, nose down tail up, urging her on. In the muddy paint water of John Constable and the rambling madness of John Clare, O'Toole takes her own step lightly into a calendar year of a landscape displaced. Chronicling the cycle of seasons, book ended by (poisonous) aconites, these poems are