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An ambitious sequence of prize-winning poems, Flatlands unearths a living world from Britain's prehistory. The poems' stark forms evoke the voices of flint miners, tribal warriors and Boudica rebelling against Roman rule. Exploring universal themes - love and infidelity, bereavement and sometimes murderous hatreds - Flatlands holds a mirror to ourselves.
List of contents
- Trackways
- Beaker Burial
- Thames Idol
- Day Graves
- Stone Cutters
- Breaking Blades
- Arrow Maker
- Flatlands
- Aurochs
- Shrill Water
- Trackways
- Hill Bed
- Herdsmen
- Light Days
- Gods of Fire and Metal
- In the Circle of the White Moon
- Villagers
- Greenstones
- Marsh Bride
- Nightshade
- Witchman
- Head Fever
- Nene
- Hard Crop
- Cold Shadows
- Tidal Dwellers
- Flag Fen
- Shale Bracelet
- Saltern
- Villagers
- Round House
- Sayer
- Furrow
- Eel Trap
- Bees' Nest
- Altar
- Witchman's Song
- After the Harvest
- Bakestone
- Seed Pit
- Iceni
- War Crowns
- Slow Marsh
- War Crown
- Ash Rings
- Crossing
- Slave Chain
- Addedomaros
- Forest Path
- Traders
- Council of Cunobelin
- Castings
- On the Street of Tombs
- Citadel of Eternal Tyranny
- Boudica's Brooch
- Blackwater
About the author
Victor Tapner is an award-winning poet whose cast of characters ranges from prehistoric tribal villagers in Flatlands, shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize, to sufferers of urban conflict and artists and scientists spanning the Renaissance to the nuclear age. His poems have been shortlisted three times in the Keats-Shelley awards, and he is a recipient of the Munster Literature Centre's international chapbook prize. A freelance writer and former Financial Times journalist, he lives in Essex.
