Caldebroc

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"Antony Rowland digs the word hoard to unearth sinewy lines of dark material - the insides of buried histories, public and private. He is an archaeologist of always alert to the unexpected coinage ('Shram bobs the gracht'), these poems pay tribute to people and places lost and found, whether teenage kinship with the Brontës, a foreboding proximity to the Yorkshire Ripper, or celebrations of absent friends. Channelling influences such as Geoffrey Hill and Tony Harrison, Rowland sets out a project uniquely his own to rework history in these 'measures against outrages', always alive to poetry's 'guilty retrieval'. These are formidable sequences, scrupulous to a taint, steeped in the earth." - Scott Thurston"In Antony Rowland's Caldebroc England's North revivifies its aural mythmaking. There is a lyric wildness here met with a sonic concatenation that is breathtaking, precise and tireless - electrifying place by refuting the nation's view of its marginal regions. Even geographical and linguistic departures bring a paradoxical insiderly displacement. Rowland's poetics of defamiliarisation, of elsewhere's habitations within the already-known, ultimately stands between us - and any sense of home - asking us not where we belong but why." - Sandeep Parmar