Silence Fell

Silence Fell marks the American debut of an extraordinary poet from the remote north of England. The poems are set on a sheep farm in the northern mountains and tell the story -- in the form of a modern shepherd’s calendar -- of Josephine Dickinson’s marriage to a Cumbrian sheep farmer, a man more than twice her age, and their life together, until his death in 2004.

During a reading tour in England, Galway Kinnell was introduced to Josephine Dickinson’s work. Her poems made such an impressio...