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For we are all of the dust of stars, reborn hunter and hunted, to soar splay-winged across the moon or shadow the lonely light of angler fish.' The final lines from the opening poem in Jigsaw, David Underdown's third Cinnamon collection, hint at what is to follow, poems that range from the cosmic to the domestic, but all characterised by acute observation. The reader will also find a sense of the surreal and, above all, an empathy and relish f...

A Freeborn People is a provocative exploration of the ways in which the political cultures of the elite and of the common people intersected during the seventeenth century. David Underdown shows that the two worlds were not as separate as historians have often thought them to be, English men and women of all social levels had similar expectations about good government and about the traditional liberties available to them under the 'Ancient Con...

What do maypoles, charivari processions, and stoolball matches have to do with the English civil war? A great deal, argues Underdown in this provocative reinterpretation of the English Revolution. Underdown uses case histories of three western counties to show that the war was, above all, the result of profound disagreements among people of all social levels about the moral basis of their communities--that commoners as well as rulers held stro...

poetry collection

An exceptional debut collection of poetry that traces an arc from coming of age to maturity. Confronting the elusiveness of memory, the fragility of our recall of experiences, this is an intensely personal narrative that is also outward looking and engaged. Winner of Cinnamon Press poetry collection award. -- Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru

The town is Dorchester in Dorset, the time the beginning of the seventeenth century. Two hundred years before Hardy disguised it as Casterbridge, Dorchester was a typical English country town, of middling size and unremarkable achievements. But on 6 August 1613 much of it was destroyed in a great conflagration, which its inhabitants regarded as a 'fire from heaven', and which was the catalyst for the events described in this book. Over the nex...

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