Great Regulars: Carcanet has recently published an expanded edition

of the remarkable work of the 20th-century poet, Sylvia Townsend Warner (New Collected Poems, £18.95). In this evocation of the handing on of a beloved place, the concern for due regard for heritage can perhaps be read as both public and private.

The Old Squire

Squire England has grown old:

from The Scotsman: Poem of the Week: Sylvia Townsend Warner

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