The Infernal Garden Geoff Hattersley was nominated for the Forward

was nominated for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2013 and the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry in 2014

one year after Independence

or because they do not believe the class system exists

part love song

The Infernal Garden Geoff Hattersley was nominated for the ForwardIn The Infernal Garden, Gregory Leadbetters poetry leads us into dark and verdant places of the imagination, the edge of the wild where the human meets the more than human in the burning green fuse of the living world. This liminal ground becomes a garden of death and rebirth, of sound and voice, in poems that combine the lyric with the mythic, precision with mystery. Responding to the intricate crisis in our relationship to our planet and the life