Englaland Andrea Cohen Rather than ‘emotion recollected in

Rather than ‘emotion recollected in tranquility’ many of these short poems encapsulate the aggravations of love untempered by any fireside philosophy

have told your beads

Cheryl Moskowitz

Nor are the forms any less varied: epic poetry

Englaland Andrea Cohen Rather than ‘emotion recollected inAfter the battle of Brunanburh, when thelstans army defeated an invading alliance of Scots, Irish, Britons and Norse, the Viking mercenary Egil Skallagrimsson extemporised a panegyric for the English and their king. Englaland is a stunning re imagining of Skallagrimssons song, an unapologetic and paradoxical affirmation of a bloody, bloody minded and bloody brilliant people. Danish huscarls, Falklands war heroes, pit village bird nesters, aging prize