The English Summer by Holly Hopkins
PBS Summer Special Commendation 2022 Alex Josephy Shortlisted for the 2005 Corneliu

Shortlisted for the 2005 Corneliu M Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation (September 2005)

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

’— Faisal Mohyuddin‘A collection that will resonate long after you have turned the last page

and through his own life’s story as he selected poems published during each year of his life

rural childhood

The English Summer by Holly Hopkins <b><br>PBS Summer Special Commendation 2022</b> Alex Josephy Shortlisted for the 2005 CorneliuA 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