Things Found on the MountainIn a remote valley in the Black Mountains farmers daughter Beth is a child of nature, utterly at one with the rugged landscape as she tends the farms wayward sheep. But change is coming to the mountains, the modern world enters in the form of the construction of a reservoir in a neighbouring valley. Parts of the mountain are literally taken away to build the dam, there are people, machinery, noise, the subjugation of nature. Change arrives too with

resilience and beautifully black humour

Rowson casts his  gaze across the satirical spectrum from governments

In 2004 she received a Northern Promise Award for her first novel

Philly Joe Jones

and partisans – as well as some very factual politicians

Together with his bold crew- a skull-collecting alien lunatic

When does a girl become a woman

grave humour and more besides – it rewards close attention

This book could serve as a masterclass in poetry

Should we accept the world as it is or rebel against it

whose misty shores once provided solace to ancient kings and their entourages

her poems expose worlds and relationships that are not always entirely comfortable places to exist