Cranic of Ordinaries by Eliza O'Toole Pan Macmillan performer and educator

performer and educator

presents an extraordinary

The collection examines the farm as home from early beginnings to the farm auction at the end of their working lives

The poems were selected by her from three of her eleven published collections

and Andrew McMillan

Cranic of Ordinaries by Eliza O'Toole Pan Macmillan performer and educatorThis cranic, or skull, of ordinaries is a landscape well known to poet Eliza O'Toole who has long tramped the Stour Valley on the Suffolk Essex border with her dog Fin, nose down tail up, urging her on. In the muddy paint water of John Constable and the rambling madness of John Clare, O'Toole takes her own step lightly into a calendar year of a landscape displaced. Chronicling the cycle of seasons, book ended by (poisonous) aconites, these poems are