Caldebroc by Antony Rowland Rod Mengham Rooted in the Sanskrit 'soma'

Rooted in the Sanskrit 'soma'

poetry itself becomes a primary ground of human experience

and his Planet-Struck was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation

a willingness to question and to carry on

The region’s favourite tipple is championed by 18th-century poet John Cunningham in his eulogy ‘Newcastle Beer’ – and in other vivid tales from the past by Edward Chicken and Thomas Wilson – while 200 years later

Caldebroc by Antony Rowland Rod Mengham Rooted in the Sanskrit 'soma''CALDEBROC introduces a range of characters from the Yorkshire and Lancashire borders and beyond, including the Brontes at their naughtiest, and crazed millionaires who try to ban January and pimp their filing cabinets. The title of the book is an old English word for a Manchester district. Working out from a sequence about a friend murdered there in 2013, the book asks: what does it mean to have spent an entire life on the M62?' Arc Publications