Colonial Countryside women'spoetry A remarkable sequence entitled 'Route

A remarkable sequence entitled 'Route 110' plots the descent into the underworld in the Aeneid against single moments in the arc of a life

but beyond that ancestry leads through slavery to the broken heritage of Africa

one that can find no foothold

subtly erotic

The man whose wife drapes a border-curtain across the middle of the marital home

Colonial Countryside women'spoetry A remarkable sequence entitled 'RouteColonial Countryside is a book of commissioned poems and short stories produced by ten global majority writers featuring National Trust houses with significant colonial histories. This includes properties whose owners engaged in the slavery business, in colonial administration or who were involved with the East India Company or British rule in India. Historians have accompanied these pieces with commentaries detailing the evidence upon which each