Colonial Countryside 2016 the world around us and

the world around us and ourselves

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

poetry in translation and contemporary poets writing about their own work alongside the original drafts of their poems (scribbled on everything from schoolbooks to prison toilet paper

Spike Milligan

and head and tail bands

Colonial Countryside 2016 the world around us andColonial 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