Time Song by Julia Blackburn Alex Reed Dowling’s subsequent collections

Dowling’s subsequent collections

followed by evocations of Northumberland by decadent gentry poet Algernon Charles Swinburne contrasting with grim tales of life down the pit by Tommy Armstrong and Joseph Skipsey in the 19th century

—Martyn Crucefix

‘Suzannah Evans’s poems offer us a catalogue of disasters and darknesses

on Pure Hustle

Time Song by Julia Blackburn Alex Reed Dowling’s subsequent collectionsJulia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past: mammoth bones, little shells that happen to be two million years old, a flint shaped as a weapon long ago. Time Song brings many such stories together as it tells of the creation, the existence and the loss of a country now called Doggerland, a huge and fertile area that once connected the entire east coast of England with mainland Europe,