SILENCE AND FALLOWFIELDS: POEMS OF ALBION, MEMORY, BECOMING

What does it mean to belong-when every place feels temporary?Silence and Fallowfields is a meditative poetry collection shaped by movement, attention, and the quiet courage of not fully belonging. Rooted in the landscapes of Albion-its northern fields, railways, yards, and weather-these poems move outward and inward at once, drawing on Mediterranean memory, classical thought, and the lived experience of a modern, multicultural world.At the heart of the book is a simple conviction: that life is not owned but borrowed, and that meaning emerges when we learn to slow down. Influenced by Roman philosophy-especially Seneca's belief that time is wasted not by its brevity but by our inattention-these poems resist haste. They linger with animals, rest in silence, and attend to the small, easily overlooked gestures that shape a life.Across fallow fields and shifting borders, the poems explore exile, return, and becoming: the condition of those who feel fully at home nowhere, yet discover that anywhere can become home. Trains pass between towns; memories cross languages; voices gather beneath more than one sky. Fear of the future is acknowledged, but never allowed to rule. What remains essential is simple and human: ground enough to keep walking, and sky enough to look up into.Silence and Fallowfields treats poetry as a space of freedom-where sound, metaphor, and invention coexist with clarity and restraint. These poems seek not spectacle, but presence; not answers, but attention. They offer a place to pause, to listen, and to let the spirit rest.This collection will appeal to readers who value: - contemporary British and European poetry- poems of place, travel, and belonging- reflections on time, memory, and impermanence- lyric writing shaped by nature, animals, and everyday observation- a modern engagement with myth and classical philosophyQuiet, humane, and deeply attentive, Silence and Fallowfields invites the reader to walk slowly, listen closely, and inhabit the possible.