The Grail Roads by Rob Hindle Mica Press ‘Foot and Mouth’ and the

‘Foot and Mouth’ and the title poem ‘Blood Rain’ are darkly prophetic: smoking pyres of infected cattle and the red dust-sediment blown north from the Sahara conjure up a deep foreboding

A work of captivation and correction

The vast majority of the poems in this fascinating collection have never appeared in English before

for the first time in English

Her particular experience in Romania means that the political is not an option: she embraces it

The Grail Roads by Rob Hindle Mica Press ‘Foot and Mouth’ and theThe ribbon of land that runs through north west France and into Flanders is always being turned over. Each year, the ploughs of French and Belgian farmers uncover shrapnel, bullets, barbed wire and artillery shells; an iron harvest that takes in the jumbled debris of the Hundred Years War, the Napoleonic Wars, and, in particular, the First World War. The Grail Roads digs deep into the cultural strata of these conflicts, and is haunted by their