Colonial Countryside 2016 Spike Milligan

Spike Milligan

She sees the footprints of early humans fossilised in the soft mud of an estuary alongside the scattered pockmarks made by rain falling eight thousand years ago

this is an unflinching and forensic exploration of a life lived through language

a poet worthy of keeping company with the best lyric writers in our tradition

Colonial Countryside 2016 Spike MilliganColonial 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