# Coleshill

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- Book: [Coleshill](https://www.bookquiver.com/fiona-sampson/coleshill) ([Coleshill.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/fiona-sampson/coleshill.md))
- Authors: [Fiona Sampson](https://www.bookquiver.com/fiona-sampson)
- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4813-867-8
- Published: 2013-03-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Deep in limestone country, at the corner of Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire, lies the village of Coleshill. This haunting new collection from Fiona Sampson is a portrait of place, both real and imaginary; a dreamscape with its roots deep in the local soil. The poems hum with an evocative music of their own: there are hymns of the orchards, verses for walkers, songs for bees. These are slices of life and states of mind; poems of grief, fears and maledictions, but also of renewal, resurrections and the promise of spring. Coleshill emerges as a “parish of sun / and shade”; its darkness and light perfectly balanced. From the T. S. Eliot and Forward Prize shortlisted poet comes a deep, interrogative collection of astonishing clarity and power.