Backalong

<b><i>Backalong</i> a dialect word from Nia Broomhall's native Somerset describes any point in the past - it could be this March last March or 1979.</b> True to its title her impressive debut collection observes the distant past and recent past with the same eyes: the distant past through poems of place and origin; the recent through poems that track the process of grieving for someone who was right there not so long ago. Through its musicality of language <i>Backalong</i> searches for joy finding what persists - and finding the words to pick out what shines despite everything.