House with the Mansard Roof by Frances Sackett Fiona Moore and a 'postscript' of newly-translated

and a 'postscript' of newly-translated medieval Italian lyrics relating to Dante and his poem

we find James in ill health but high spirits

and everyone should buy this debut

marked by their rare reconciliation of the playful and the serious

One language is falling silent every two weeks

House with the Mansard Roof by Frances Sackett Fiona Moore and a 'postscript' of newly-translatedIn her enthralling third collection, Frances Sackett examines the hidden histories emerging from the land. We meet the Yde Girl, found abandoned in a peat bog in the Netherlands; a ghostly ship and its hidden treasures excavated near Sutton Hoo; and a sunken forest discovered off the Welsh coast. There are poems with fierce empathy for women living in war torn countries, some in exile, some in isolation, and a sequence for a mother separated from her