Julia Blackburn Publication April 2015 in association with De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam 80 page Paperback 200mm x 150mm with 35 colour photographs by Andrew Smiley ISBN 978-0-9571528-7-8

A poignant meditation by Julia Blackburn on the sudden death of her husband, the sculptor Herman Makkink in 2013.

The thirty three verses are accompanied by photographs taken by Andrew Smiley of starling murmurations in the evening sky over Walberswick in Suffolk.

I am busy with death And the fact of it Because my husband died Three months ago Almost to the day, The landscape of my altered world Divided Between before and after.