The English Summer by Holly Hopkins
PBS Summer Special Commendation 2022 Alex Josephy ”  And “Having an

”  And “Having an affair / is just getting all dressed up to cut yourself

at the same time mythical and mystical

Combining a beautifully performed naivety with a profound intellect

rural childhood

and she expertly grapples with her own animal obsessions as in the lively ‘Road-Kill’

The English Summer by Holly Hopkins <b><br>PBS Summer Special Commendation 2022</b> Alex Josephy ”  And “Having anA Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Seaweed and sunburn. The death of a fridge. A 'pie faced' St George upstaged by the horse. The English Summer confronts the illusions and paradoxes of history in poems that reimagine medieval anchorites and 18th century follies, zombies and the Megabus. This is a landscape populated by overcrowded urban bedsits and burnt out country piles, where ghosts of the past are sensed beneath dual carriageways and old