Pomona's Orchard by Adrian Blamires Layli Long Soldier emotional depth and intellectual bravery

emotional depth and intellectual bravery

The poet intertwines Ireland's colonial history with an examination of how the crises of mental health and housing affect those in domestic spaces

and in the varied silences of human and divine relationships

September 2017

Pomona's Orchard by Adrian Blamires Layli Long Soldier emotional depth and intellectual braveryPomona's Orchard, Adrian Blamires' third collection, is dedicated to the arts of peace. Its tutelary spirits include Caliban tending to the dying Prospero, a great aunt rescuing cats and dogs in the Blitz, the enlightened schoolmaster to an orphaned John Keats, and Pomona, Roman goddess of fruitful propagation, as the genius loci of a Herefordshire orchard. Miracles of love and healing are conjured in the face of violence and rapacity. Lament and