Publisher's Synopsis
Plundering the language, Paul Hyland carefully and forcefully renders experience and imagination using 'the best trees/ for those tasks I could take on'. Rooted in English land and life, his Stubborn Forest yields a rich hoard of new poems in the gritty Anglo-Saxon tradition. This is a strongly imaginative book. It shows a range not only of technique but also of tone, in portraits of places and people, dream poems, riddles, elegies, and enigmatic poems which - like those of Hyland's previous book, Poems of Z - speak through personae or fictional characters. Many of the poems explore particular landscapes: Dorset, South-West England, and Northumbria.
