Shortlisted for The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry First Collection Prize 2017. Rebecca Watts's debut collection is a witty, warm-hearted guide to the English landscape, and a fresh take on nature poetry. In assured style, Watts positions herself where Wordsworth, Frost and Hughes have stood; with an original point of view and an openness to the possibilities of form, she retunes the genre for modern ears. From the wide-open plains of ecology and social history to the intimate enclosures ...

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Rebecca Watts's debut collection is a witty, warm-hearted guide to the English landscape, and a fresh take on nature poetry. In assured style, Watts positions herself where Wordsworth, Frost and Hughes have stood; with an original point of view and an openness to the possibilities of form, she retunes the genre for modern ears. From the wide-open plains of ecology and social history to the intimate enclosures of dreams, homes and bodies, these poems approach their often-unusual subjects wi...

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An biography with a difference.Part 1 Jim Langley's life as a boy right through to post WW2 and his time in SHAEF intelligence.Part 2 has never before published signed letters from several well known historical High Command Germans including Rohn, Hydrich, Raeder, von Papen and even a birthday card sent to Hitler in 1936, copies of actual escape maps used by Capt Langley and his analysis interpretation the original Operation Sealion papers.Capt Langley claimed to be p...

To appreciate the present and how far we have come we sometimes need to revisit the uncomfortable past, no matter how painful.Norwell Roberts, who became the Met's first Black police officer in 1967, found out he had a new job the same way the readers of the Daily Telegraph did. The headline read 'MET TO HAVE FIRST COLOURED POLICEMAN'.From that day forward his face became a symbol - of acceptance, of a diverse police force, of a ch...

Norwell Roberts, the Met's first Black police officer in 1967, found out he had a new job the same way the rest of the country did - from a Daily Telegraph headline that read 'MET TO HAVE FIRST COLOURED POLICEMAN'.From that day forward his face became a symbol - of acceptance, of a diverse police force, of a changing Britain. He was turned into the poster boy for progressive policing - but his day-to-day reality was anything but. Greeted with prejudice, ri...