Broadlands

A generous and intimate reflection on the natural and human world, grounded in the reedbeds, meadows and marshes of England's Norfolk Broads.

The poems of Matt Howard’s Broadlands are closely and thrillingly observed from real encounters, inviting us closer to the more-than-human world, its violence, fragility and wonder. Yet the human is always and all the more present; here too are poems of desire, love and grief. They are poems of the field, imaginings from the conservation of habitats re...