Time Song by Julia Blackburn Alex Reed Meet a giddy comet

Meet a giddy comet

Dowling’s subsequent collections

heartbreak – take on an unbearable substance

His compositions encompass other topics: for example James Aitchison on time ranges from contemplating the origins of life to recognising the uncertain future of our world

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

Time Song by Julia Blackburn Alex Reed Meet a giddy cometJulia 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,