The English Summer

The English Summer is the debut collection by Holly Hopkins, confronting an increasingly fearful future. Hopkins' long-awaited debut confronts the illusions and paradoxes of English history in poems that range from medieval anchorites and 18th-century follies to 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 a 'pie-faced' St George is upstaged by the horse. Praise for pamphlet Soon Every House Will Have One: There isn't a stale line in this pamphlet. Holly Hopkins is the genuine thing, and this is a ferociously impressive debut. - Poetry London