Item category 2: Book

Martin Malone & Bryan Angus's Gardenstown offers a vivid evocation of changing seasons in a village, from spring to winter. The book is a sequence of Malone's remarkable poetry, interspersed with Angus's exquisite linocuts, which capture the essence of the people, places and wildlife in north-eas...

Sonnets for my mother as Lear is a sequence of what Martin Malone calls "raggedy" sonnets, about the poet's indomitable mother and also the dementia care system, mixing registers within a dramatic context derived from Shakespeare's King Lear - both funny and moving.