The English Summer by Holly Hopkins
PBS Summer Special Commendation 2022 Alex Josephy As antagonisms and intimacies converge

As antagonisms and intimacies converge

Combining a beautifully performed naivety with a profound intellect

through a series of Roman Catholic schools in India and England

Shortlisted for the 2005 Corneliu M Popescu Prize for European Poetry Translation (September 2005)

rural childhood

The English Summer by Holly Hopkins <b><br>PBS Summer Special Commendation 2022</b> Alex Josephy As antagonisms and intimacies convergeA Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Seaweed and sunburn. The death of a fridge. A 'pie faced' St George upstaged by the horse. The English Summer confronts the illusions and paradoxes of history in poems that reimagine medieval anchorites and 18th century follies, 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 old