Colonial Countryside women'spoetry The man whose wife drapes

The man whose wife drapes a border-curtain across the middle of the marital home

and shortlisted for the Jane Martin Poetry Prize and the London Magazine Poetry Prize

the poems in Amy Abdullah Barry's debut are prompted by wonder and appreciation

subtly erotic

Colonial Countryside women'spoetry The man whose wife drapesColonial Countryside is a book of commissioned poems and short stories produced by ten global majority writers featuring National Trust houses with significant colonial histories. This includes properties whose owners engaged in the slavery business, in colonial administration or who were involved with the East India Company or British rule in India. Historians have accompanied these pieces with commentaries detailing the evidence upon which each