Learning Finity

Description

How much of the past, its people and memories, stay imprinted on the landscape? Are the trees lining the nave of a bombed-out church busy rebuilding it? And does the valerian that thrusts through cracks in walls on streets climbing from the city centre remember when the hillside was woodland called Fockynggrove, rising beyond the city walls and a very well frequented spot indeed? Yes, everything is mutable, but stories persist.

Bristol poet Deborah Harvey is a co-founder of the Leaping Word poetry consultancy and has an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Writing School. Deborah’s previous five poetry collections were also published by Indigo Dreams, with her historical novel, Dart, under their ‘Tamar Books’ imprint.