Remembering Polly Clark left his home in Bruck

left his home in Bruck an der Mur in Austria for the unknown

funny and loud – all written in her characteristic idiosyncratic prose

Rope draws on issues of climate change

In addition to his many poetry collections he published two much admired volumes of short stories and three books for children

with the way we had to understand them

Remembering Polly Clark left his home in BruckThe second in Five Leaves series of debut poetry pamphlets by East Midlands writers. Remembering includes poems based on the few facts Julie Gardner knows about the early life of her mother, who died suddenly at the age of forty seven. These poems are fictional yet symphonic in their scope and show how a whole life story can be built up from the simple knowledge of a persons existence. A second sequence, about Julies husband, Arthur, who died in 2008,